Arrhythmia
aka Aritmiya
First screened in October 2017
Director: Boris Khlebnikov. Cast: Aleksandr Yatsenko, Irina Gorbacheva, Nikolay Shrayber, Galina Averyanova, Polina Ilyukhina, Vladimir Kapustin, Anna Kotova, Ivan Kudashov, Maksim Lagashkin, Evgeniy Muravin, Sergey Nasedkin, Tatyana Rasskazova, Aleksandr Samoylenko, Albina Tikhanova, Sergey Udovik, Anna Ukolova. Screenplay: Boris Khlebnikov and Natalya Meshchaninova.

Twitter Capsule: Bringing Out the Death of Mr. Lazarescu. Ace cast in colorful, chaotic portrait of erratic EMT in crisis-prone Russia.

VOR:   I'm getting impatient for Khlebnikov to be a bigger name in Anglo cinephile circles. This is a high-wire character study-cum-national self-study.



Photo © 2017 CTB Film Company/Mars Media Entertainment/Don Films

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B+


Awards:
Chicago International Film Festival: Best Actor (Yatsenko)

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