The Banishment

Name: The Banishment
Genre: Drama
Released: January 18, 2018
Duration: 157 min
Rating: 59
Cast: Aleksandr Baluyev, Aleksey Vertkov, Dmitriy Ulyanov, Igor Sergeev, Ira Gonto

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Artificial Eye | Release Date: January 18, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Aleksandr Baluyev, Aleksey Vertkov, Dmitriy Ulyanov, Igor Sergeev, Ira Gonto, Konstantin Lavronenko, Maksim Shibayev, Maria Bonnevie, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Yekaterina Kulkina

Summary: The film investigates bonds of family, this time tackling the relationship between a husband and wife. A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city. Eschewing easy answers and tackling a wide array of themes, The Banishment poetically renders the persistent human state of exile from ourThe film investigates bonds of family, this time tackling the relationship between a husband and wife. A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city. Eschewing easy answers and tackling a wide array of themes, The Banishment poetically renders the persistent human state of exile from our surroundings. [Kino Lorber]… Expand

Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 157 min

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The Telegraph David Gritten

Jan 18, 2018

The Banishment may lack the surprise factor of The Return but it's more mature and less wedded to virtuosic technique. Read full review

Mary Corliss

Jan 18, 2018

It is truly something to see; for among all the lives to be ruined it is a visual rhapsody, attentive to every nuance in the spectacular land and foliage around the family home, following the lives within as meticulously as it traces the dramatic changes in weather — from clear day to torrential showers — in one of the longest, most intricate and beautiful tracking shots in cinema. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Jan 18, 2018

The first two-thirds are an extraordinary slow burn that provides ample time to admire Mr. Zvyagintsev’s talent with the wide frame. The movie is marred by an unsatisfying resolution, which has a coyness better suited to literature. Read full review

David Parkinson

Jan 18, 2018

It feels more like a ciné dissertation designed to showcase Zvyagintsev’s appreciation of the medium than an original piece of cinema. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

Jan 18, 2018

The undeniably talented helmer’s sophomore feature has little of the emotional power of “The Return,” though d.p. Mikhail Krichman does stellar work and thesping is faultless. Read full review

Dave Calhoun

Jan 18, 2018

The elements are all in place – superb acting (lead actor Konstantin Lavronenko won the best actor prize at Cannes in 2007), masterly camerawork, an ethereal score, ghostly locations – but the problem is that the story never really connects. Read full review

Kirk Honeycutt

Jan 18, 2018

The Banishment (Izgnanie) starts off like a thriller with a car roaring into the city and a clandestine surgery by a man to remove a bullet in his brother's arm. Then, ever so slowly, the movie falls into the clutches of long, solemn stares into space, meaningful drags on cigarettes, cryptic dialogue revealing little and a tiny drama that feels old, tired and empty of real purpose. Read full review

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