Director: Sergei Loznitsa Writer: Sergei Loznitsa Starring: Viktor Nemets, Vladimir Golovin, Olga Shuvalova, Dmitriy Gotsdiner, Aleksey Vertkov A prologue reveals a lifeless human body as it is tossed into a hole and promptly buried in cement and dirt. With this short opening sequence it becomes bitingly obvious that the joyful title of Russian writer-director Sergei Loznitsa's film is intended to reek of cynicism and irony. Soon thereafter we meet Georgy (Viktor Nemets); he is our truck driving guide across a dilapidated and somewhat foreboding Russian landscape. As if trapped in a surrealist nightmare, Georgy is constantly delayed and/or detoured from delivering his cargo of flour to its destination. This, however, allows the extremely affable Georgy ample opportunity to fraternize with some shady check-point security officers, a couple of mischievous thieves, a teenage prostitute (Olga Shuvalova), and an elderly wanderer (Vladimir Golovin) who hijacks the narrative (ala Wojciech Has...
- 10/13/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
#20. My Joy Director: Sergei LoznitsaCast: Viktor Nemets, Vlad Ivanov, Maria Varsami, Vladimir Golovin, Olga Shuvalova, Alexey Vertkov, Yuriy Sviridenko Distributor: Rights Available. Buzz: I'm happy to see Tiff and Nyff programmers include this difficult film among their lineups, cuz if you like "the road less traveled" roadtrip type of movie, then you'll want to venture into documentarian Sergei Loznitsa's first narrative feature -- one of the highlights of my Cannes experience this year that actually got panned -- perhaps because it was so non-conform and psychologically messed up. The Gist: The story about a few days in the life of truck driver Georgi seems to be a never-ending nightmare, a spiral of violence and abuses of power. A man goes to work and on his way he is sucked into the everyday madness of his country, losing his health and memory in the process and ends up as a murderer,...
- 9/8/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Sergei Loznitsa’s debut feature titled My Joy is a story of a truck driver who loses his way in the Russian wilderness and gets drawn into daily life in a Russian village.
Interesting or not, the film is the part of Cannes In Competition screening, set for May 19 and we are here today to have a little chat about this Loznitsa’s project, simple post-Soviet reality story that goes like this…
“…a tale of truck driver Georgi who leaves his hometown with his truck laden with goods, but when he is forced to take a wrong turn on the motorway, he finds himself stranded in the middle of nowhere. Georgi desperately tries to find his way out, but gradually, against his will, he becomes drawn into the daily life of a Russian village.
In a place, where brutal force and the instinct to survive overcome humanity and common sense,...
Interesting or not, the film is the part of Cannes In Competition screening, set for May 19 and we are here today to have a little chat about this Loznitsa’s project, simple post-Soviet reality story that goes like this…
“…a tale of truck driver Georgi who leaves his hometown with his truck laden with goods, but when he is forced to take a wrong turn on the motorway, he finds himself stranded in the middle of nowhere. Georgi desperately tries to find his way out, but gradually, against his will, he becomes drawn into the daily life of a Russian village.
In a place, where brutal force and the instinct to survive overcome humanity and common sense,...
- 5/17/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Sergei Loznitsa’s debut feature titled My Joy is a story of a truck driver who loses his way in the Russian wilderness and gets drawn into daily life in a Russian village.
Interesting or not, the film is the part of Cannes In Competition screening, set for May 19 and we are here today to have a little chat about this Loznitsa’s project, simple post-Soviet reality story that goes like this…
“…a tale of truck driver Georgi who leaves his hometown with his truck laden with goods, but when he is forced to take a wrong turn on the motorway, he finds himself stranded in the middle of nowhere. Georgi desperately tries to find his way out, but gradually, against his will, he becomes drawn into the daily life of a Russian village.
In a place, where brutal force and the instinct to survive overcome humanity and common sense,...
Interesting or not, the film is the part of Cannes In Competition screening, set for May 19 and we are here today to have a little chat about this Loznitsa’s project, simple post-Soviet reality story that goes like this…
“…a tale of truck driver Georgi who leaves his hometown with his truck laden with goods, but when he is forced to take a wrong turn on the motorway, he finds himself stranded in the middle of nowhere. Georgi desperately tries to find his way out, but gradually, against his will, he becomes drawn into the daily life of a Russian village.
In a place, where brutal force and the instinct to survive overcome humanity and common sense,...
- 5/15/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Ruben Östlund’s Swedish drama “De Ofrivilliga” (“Involuntary”) took home the Iris Award for best film Sunday at the 6th edition of the Brussels European Film Festival.
Written by Ruben Östlund and Erik Hemmendorff, the film examines several individuals’ behavior in a group. Among the characters are a young man who needs to be the center of attention among his friends, two girls who plan to drink large quantities of alcohol, and a bus driver who wants to show off his authority.
The prize for best performance went to Polina Philonenko, Agnia Kuznetsova and Olga Shuvalova in Valeriya Gai Germanika’s “Everybody Dies But Me,” which also recently won the CineVision Award at the 25th edition of the Munich Film Festival.
Germanika’s coming-of-age drama follows three teenagers as they gear up for a party held at their high school. Alexander Rodionov and Juri Klavdiev wrote the script.
Hany Tamba...
Written by Ruben Östlund and Erik Hemmendorff, the film examines several individuals’ behavior in a group. Among the characters are a young man who needs to be the center of attention among his friends, two girls who plan to drink large quantities of alcohol, and a bus driver who wants to show off his authority.
The prize for best performance went to Polina Philonenko, Agnia Kuznetsova and Olga Shuvalova in Valeriya Gai Germanika’s “Everybody Dies But Me,” which also recently won the CineVision Award at the 25th edition of the Munich Film Festival.
Germanika’s coming-of-age drama follows three teenagers as they gear up for a party held at their high school. Alexander Rodionov and Juri Klavdiev wrote the script.
Hany Tamba...
- 7/9/2008
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
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