Donbass

DVD Features

Discs: 1

• Highest Rating
  "There’s no other antiwar film quite like “Donbass,” Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s brutally matter-of-fact, cynically comic string of vignettes depicting social destabilization in the titular war-ravaged region of eastern Ukraine. And yet, as the world grows ever more calloused toward propaganda-fueled division, official criminality and everyday armed conflict, we may need more films as bracing as “Donbass” to slap us straight about where this is leading us all."
  Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
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  "With this compulsively mesmerising film, Loznitsa has tapped into his nation's beleaguered soul in a way that's immediately recognisable in the global post-truth era."
  Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall
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  "A completely clear-eyed composite of hellish desperation... Donbass is Loznitsa's most masterful output to date."
  Nicholas Bell, Ion Cinema
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  "Critic's Pick! [T]he movie’s bitter achievement is in its granular, ground-level concreteness. It’s horrific, impossible, extreme — and also understated."
  A.O. Scott, The New York Times
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  "A brilliant formalist, Loznitsa likes to turn his camera on crowds in motion, turning each sequence into a collective indictment."
  Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
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  "A sprawling black comedy with a vast ensemble cast, it evokes a chaotic state of social breakdown in the Donbass region of Ukraine, often with virtuoso brilliance...."
  Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily
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  "Donbass reveals how art can be an intimate, eye-opening counterpart to what we're seeing on the news. The mastery of tone and style explains why Loznitsa won the best director's prize for Donbass in the Cannes Festival's Un Certain Regard section."
  Caryn James, BBC
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  "Loznitsa’s satire is anchored by a host of superb actors, whose faces and body types are Eastern European counterparts to those in a Fellini film. "
  Stuart Liebman, ArtForum