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Minotaur marks nan first movie from acclaimed Russian auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev successful nan champion portion of a decade.
At nan film’s Cannes Film Festival world premiere coming it received a heartfelt ten-minute opinionated ovation, 1 of nan longer ovations of nan show truthful far. Deadline’s Stephanie Bunbury hailed nan movie arsenic “a awesome portion of work” successful her review.
The Russian-language movie sees a high-powered executive’s meticulously controlled beingness unravel erstwhile master crises, world chaos, and marital betrayal converge, pushing him toward a vulnerable breaking point. Dmitriy Mazurov stars arsenic Gleb other Iris Lebedeva arsenic Galina.
Writer-director Zvyagintsev is backmost successful nan Cannes title after Loveless won nan assemblage prize astatine nan 2017 version of nan show and Leviathan took location nan 2014 champion screenplay award. Elena was honored pinch nan Un Certain Regard typical assemblage prize in 2011.
Given his way record, location person been precocious hopes for nan filmmaker’s latest.
Co-written pinch Semen Liashenko, nan movie is simply a co-production betwixt France, Latvia and Germany. The producers are MK2 Films’ MK Productions, CG Cinéma and Zvyagintsev, successful relation pinch Leaf Entertainment. The co-producers are Razor Film successful Germany and Forma Pro films successful Latvia.
MK2 Films is handling world sales. Mubi has acquired Minotaur for North America, nan U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria and Latin America.
