Russian Director Karen Shakhnazarov Keeps It Surreal in These Absurdist Films
Russian director Karen Shakhnazarov’s Soviet-era In the Moscow Slums and Zerograd are surreal, absurdist films rich in Impressionistic color.
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‘Leviathan’ Is a Kafkaesque Nightmare in Russia
Combine Orson Welles’ The Trial with Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, throw in some nods to Job and Thomas Hobbes, and you get Leviathan Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan.