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The Return
Why this pick
Zvyagintsev’s earlier family drama shares Loveless’s wintry precision, oppressive silences, and a child’s exposed vulnerability within emotionally unreachable adults.
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MOVIE2017 2h 7m RUS
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Loveless
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Keep the feeling.
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Why this pick
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Why this pick
Its austere long takes, unblinking realism, and mounting dread match Loveless’s refusal to soften the human cost of a hostile social environment.
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A Separation
Why this pick
Another superbly controlled domestic fracture: competing adult certainties, a child caught between them, and suspense that grows from painfully believable moral compromises.
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The Salesman
Why this pick
Its intimate, unsensational treatment of a relationship corroding under pressure echoes Loveless’s sharp attention to resentment, denial, and private harm.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Марьяна Спивак
Женя
Aleksey Rozin
Борис
Marina Vasilyeva
Маша