Set in the aftermath of World War II, this dazzling movie centers on two friends who are each casualties of a historical trauma. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Premiering in Un Certain Regard, Russian director Kantemir Balagov's 'Beanpole' revolves around two women ravaged by World War II. By Todd McCarthy Films don’t get much grimmer than Kantemir ...

Set in Leningrad shortly after World War II, Beanpole centers on two women who find themselves deeply scarred by their wartime experiences with the Red Army. This is FRESH AIR. Film critic Justin ...

A great and terrible sadness hangs over every frame of “Beanpole,” the extraordinary new movie from Russian writer-director Kantemir Balagov. Set in Leningrad in the fall of 1945, the movie ...

Balagov has been busy traveling with Beanpole, meeting diverse audiences around the world and finding positive reactions.In Russia, however, the response has been 50-50 since the topic of WWII is ...

Services to share this page. EXCLUSIVE: After winning the FIPRESCI prize for Tesnota (Closeness) two years ago at Cannes, Russian director Kantemir Balagov returns with Beanpole a story about the ...

Those who found “1917” the wrong kind of “harrowing” — the fun kind — will surely experience the Russian drama “Beanpole” a different way. Making its Chicago premiere Friday at the ...

And it is stunning, writes Cassie da Costa. Former Entertainment Writer Many critics are lauding Beanpole, the latest film by 28-year-old Russian director Kantemir Balagov, as the first great movi ...

Before the opening shot of the extraordinary Russian film Beanpole, we hear the ragged sound of someone struggling to breathe — a gasping, clicking intake of air that might literally be a death ...

Viktoria Miroshnichenko plays the long-limbed, ghostlike, sickly Iya, aka Beanpole, who’s rattled by a PTSD condition that causes sudden spells of shortness of breath. Vasilisa Perelygina plays ...

Russia’s selection for the Academy Award international film category and winner of the Un Certain Regard best director prize at Cannes last May, “Beanpole” is a unique blend of war movie and ...

Beanpole is currently streaming online as part of Film Lab's Virtual Cinema series on VOD. Tickets can be purchased here. With its juiced-up emerald and burnt-red interiors, all captured by a ...