The Barber of Siberia
aka Sibirskiy tsiryulnik First screened in March 2018
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov. Cast: Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksei Petrenko, Richard Harris, Vladimir Ilin, Nikita Mikhalkov, Isabelle Renauld, Marat Basharov, Georgiy Dronov,
Avangard Leontev, Artyom Mikhalkov, Anna Mikhalkova, Marina Neyolova, Daniel Olbrychski, Nikita Tatarenkov, Robert Hardy, Elizabeth Spriggs. Screenplay: Gaspar Noé. Twitter Capsule:
Formally and tonally chaotic; not the epic vision intended. Odd energy, growing sadness do get interesting.
VOR:②
The saddest thing about Barber, even if you grant its crazy veers among slapstick, tragedy, and epic poem, is how short it falls of its grandiose pretensions.
