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Summary Avant-garde Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov (The Student) returns to the big-screen with a tribute to the early years of Russian rock. Leningrad, in the summer, early eighties. Smuggling LP’s by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with ...

Directed By: Kirill Serebrennikov

Written By: Lily Idov, Michael Idov, Ivan Kapitonov, Natalya Naumenko, Kirill Serebrennikov

  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Gunpowder & Sky
  • 2 h 6 m
  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Gunpowder & Sky
  • 2 h 6 m

Leto

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
69
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings
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Summary Avant-garde Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov (The Student) returns to the big-screen with a tribute to the early years of Russian rock. Leningrad, in the summer, early eighties. Smuggling LP’s by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with ...

Directed By: Kirill Serebrennikov

Written By: Lily Idov, Michael Idov, Ivan Kapitonov, Natalya Naumenko, Kirill Serebrennikov

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90
May 18, 2018
Part fond remembrance of an early-’80s Leningrad rock scene and part glam-rock fever dream, Leto asks an audience to surrender to excess and at times to silliness, and it richly rewards them for doing so.
By Steve Pond FULL REVIEW
80
May 18, 2018
Leto is one of those movies that whisks us into a world that feels both familiar and fresh, like a sense memory of a life we might have lived if we’d been born in another decade or on another continent.
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75
Jun 3, 2019
Leto makes us wish for a Russian “Summer of Love” that never was.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
70
May 18, 2018
If not as overtly political as “The Student,” Leto nonetheless represents about as flamboyant a statement of free artistic expression as Serebrennikov could make at this moment: There’s certainly nothing contained or inhibited about its celebration of artists who themselves were given little support or leeway by the Soviet government.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
63
Jul 31, 2019
Little of this comes through in the film, which is about the mayfly moment and three people at its center. For those who don’t have enough information to connect the dots, that may not be enough. Maybe you had to be there, but it’s a movie’s job to take us, and this one gets only partway.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
60
May 18, 2018
The film’s energy and passion (and no doubt, eye for detail) can’t be faulted, but a tighter film could have more pointedly made the connection between the subjects’ brief lifespans and the fate of a young culture of refusal that arguably died when the system it questioned was replaced by a differently oppressive social order.
By Jonathan Romney FULL REVIEW
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Jun 13, 2019
Leto sadly feels more like the conclusion of summer than the start of the year’s brightest season, and is too devoid of energy to warrant a recommendation to anyone other than diehard fans of Serebrennikov’s prior work.
By Jonathan Christian FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Hype Film, KinoVista, Charades, L'Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Institut Français
Release Date Jun 7, 2019
Duration 2 h 6 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.bacfilms.com/distribution/en/movies/leto
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Awards

Nika Awards
• 4 Wins & 11 Nominations
Russian Guild of Film Critics
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
East-West: Golden Arch International Film Awards
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations

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