Kazakh writer/director Adilkhan Yerzhanov has the sort of work-rate that Michael Winterbottom would be proud of, directing a whopping six features in the past couple of years, with two more currently in post-production. His films, including Night God and A Dark Dark Man, have an absurdist sense of humour, Kafkaesque settings and a whiff of noir about them as they play with classic ideas - police corruption, vengeance, small-town politics - while satirising Kazakhstan's rural backwaters.
His latest film also has a fairy tale vibe - a sort of modern take on cumulative stories like The Old Woman And Her Pig - offering a spare approach to a kidnapping that spirals into a saga for his heroine Ulbolsyn (Asel Sadvakasova).
We meet her before the kidnapping, as she returns from the city to her home village with a plan to take her younger sister Azhar (Dinara Sagi) to study abroad.
His latest film also has a fairy tale vibe - a sort of modern take on cumulative stories like The Old Woman And Her Pig - offering a spare approach to a kidnapping that spirals into a saga for his heroine Ulbolsyn (Asel Sadvakasova).
We meet her before the kidnapping, as she returns from the city to her home village with a plan to take her younger sister Azhar (Dinara Sagi) to study abroad.
- 11/24/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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