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Tilda Swinton, Dramatist Baker, Mads Mikkelsen & Naomi Kawase Announced Seek out Marrakech’s ‘In Conversation With’ Program
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Joshua Reviews Andrey Zvyaginstev’s The Banishment [Theatrical Review]
While it may not have been on the shelf for over a decade, The Banishment is not only the second feature film from director Andrey Zvyaginstev, but it is now, 11 years after its initial debut, finally arriving in theaters stateside.
Yes, you’ve read that correctly. Arguably today’s greatest Russian filmmaker, Zvyaginstev is the subject of a new mid-career retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and as part of that series (running January 12-24), MoMA will be giving the director’s sophomore effort its premiere US theatrical run, a full decade-plus after its 2007 bow. A dense, expertly crafted feature, this nearly three-hour long familial epic followed Zvyaginstev’s debut The Return, and helped launch the filmmaker into a stratosphere finding him getting comparisons to names like Tarkovsky.
The Banishment is a polarizing motion picture, a master class in the modern art of “slow cinema” (whatever that silly qualifier really means), based itself on a novel by William Saroyan, The Laughing Matter. Actor Konstantin Lavronenko returns here as the patriarch of a family, Alex, living in an unnamed locale who, after an event viewers learn little about, packs his family up and mo
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The Banishment
Alex, Vera, and their two children, Kir and Eva, seem like the perfect happy family. We know that Alex has been involved in some shady dealings in the city, and that his brother, Mark has criminal connections, but Mark himself feels it's best to stay away from the family and Alex has taken them out into the countryside, to the house which was once his father's, to live a simpler life. However in the manner of Classical tragedy it is the simple, fundamental things in life which prove to be the most dangerous. In their isolation, Alex and Vera both experience frustration, prompting her to make a startling confession. Confounded, furious, not knowing which way to turn, Alex is propelled into a series of actions which will change everything.
With so much drama at its heart, The Banishment is at times a painfully slow film. It's par for the course for great Russian fiction but will nevertheless frustrate some Western viewers. What saves it during these stretches is magnificent technical work. It's lovingly shot in deceptively muted shades, the colours one scarcely sees like the fragments of other people's souls which we overlook when we perceive them only in relevance to our own lives. Its sound design is the best I've encountered for years and brings the whole thi