Film
The Stoker
Sun, Dec 8, 2013
- 6PM
LOCATION:
RUN TIME: 89min
FORMAT: DCP
LANGUAGE: In Russian with English subtitles
GENERAL ADMISSION: $13
MEMBERS: $8 (Movie Moguls free)
STUDENTS/SENIORS:
$9 (Students 29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)
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December 2013
Sunday December 08, 2013
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2013
and TransCultural Express
series Of Freaks and Men: The Films of Aleksei Balabanov
Directed by Aleksei Balabanov | 2010
With Mikhail Skryabin, Yuriy Matveev
“Full of idiosyncratic, almost suicidal directorial choices, yet weirdly this film cuts to the heart of its country.”
—The Guardian
Deep in the bowels of a seedy, decaying St. Petersburg, Ivan (Skryabin), a Siberian Yakut and Afghan war veteran, patiently tends to his fiery furnace, quietly looking the other way while local mobsters deliver fresh corpses for incineration. Balabanov’s blackest of black comedies—shot in defiantly grubby video, teeming with blunt nudity and violence, and set to an ironically breezy bossa nova soundtrack—forges a distinct blend of the sneeringly nihilistic and unsettlingly hilarious.