Mute Witness
First screened in May 2015
Director: Anthony Waller. Cast: Marina Sudina, Oleg Yankovsky, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards, Igor Volkov, Sergei Karlenkov, Aleksandr Pyatkov, Olga Tolstetskaya, Alec Guinness, Nikolai Pastukhov. Screenplay: Anthony Waller. Twitter Capsule:
Sort of Siberian Sound Studio: a lurid thriller with wit, craft, and a clever conceit. Even functional passages click.
VOR:③
A popping good time, even as it operates under fairly clear influences (De Palma, giallo). Impressively offers us more than its silent-protagonist conceit.
