Ideas of man and beast wrestle with one another in Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s unsettling debut. He draws on the pagan mask-wearing traditions of the preparation for the Ukranian Malanka carnival to heighten the primal imagery of his tale of a family man who becomes increasingly desperate.
Leonid (played with bruising heft by Oleksandr Yatsentyuk) has just returned home after a long stint working abroad. Locals know him best by the nickname Pamfir, which was garnered in a youth of smuggling - although that is all theoretically in the past now thanks to a promise he made to his wife Olena (Solomiia Kyrylova). The setting may be rural but the rules here are far from pastoral. Despite the earthy warmth of the general colour scheme, mist swirls about the place and there’s a strong undercurrent of violence, even in the film’s moments of humour.
Pamfir’s son Nazar (Stanislav Potiak) is now a.
Leonid (played with bruising heft by Oleksandr Yatsentyuk) has just returned home after a long stint working abroad. Locals know him best by the nickname Pamfir, which was garnered in a youth of smuggling - although that is all theoretically in the past now thanks to a promise he made to his wife Olena (Solomiia Kyrylova). The setting may be rural but the rules here are far from pastoral. Despite the earthy warmth of the general colour scheme, mist swirls about the place and there’s a strong undercurrent of violence, even in the film’s moments of humour.
Pamfir’s son Nazar (Stanislav Potiak) is now a.
- 5/4/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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