Under Electric Clouds
aka Pod elektricheskimi oblakami First screened in October 2015
Director: Aleksei German, Jr. Cast: Viktoriya Korotkova, Karim Pakachakov, Louis Franck, Merab Ninidze, Viktor Bugakov, Piotr Gasowski, Chulpan Khamatova, Konstantin Zeliger. Screenplay: Aleksei German, Jr. Twitter Capsule:
I struggled with granular details but its spectral vision of Russia impresses—a fog of monoliths and nomads.
VOR:④
Good for Russian cinema that prodigious, palimpsestic acts of epic history and speculative futurism are a persistent genre. This isn't as sublime as some, but very bracing.
