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 slowly ...
When movies gaze into the faces of women at wartime, it’s usually through the perspective of nurses, refugees and Rosie the Riveter types. That’s what makes Kantemir Balagov’s Oscar-shortlisted ...
Kantemir Balagov‘s Beanpole / Dylda (2019) movie trailer has been released by Kino Lorber and stars Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov, Igor Shirokov, and Olga Dragunova.
She fades in and out sometimes. They call it post-concussion syndrome, but basically Iya (Viktoria Miroshnichenko) just shuts down. Her body stiffens, her face goes blank and her breathing becomes ...
This is FRESH AIR. Film critic Justin Chang has a review of the new Russian movie "Beanpole," which he says is one of the most exciting discoveries he made at last year's Cannes Film Festival. The ...
It’s difficult to talk about Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole without describing something that happens in the first 20 minutes. Revealing it outright would be saying too much. Perhaps it’s best, then, ...