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  • 2018
  • Kino Lorber
  • 2 h 30 m
  • 2018
  • Kino Lorber
  • 2 h 30 m
The Banishment

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 our s...

Directed By: Andrey Zvyagintsev

Written By: William Saroyan, Artyom Melkumyan, Oleg Negin

  • 2018
  • Kino Lorber
  • 2 h 30 m
  • 2018
  • Kino Lorber
  • 2 h 30 m

The Banishment

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
59
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
6.7
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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 our s...

Directed By: Andrey Zvyagintsev

Written By: William Saroyan, Artyom Melkumyan, Oleg Negin

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
59
25% Positive
2 Reviews
63% Mixed
5 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
59
25% Positive
2 Reviews
63% Mixed
5 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review

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100
Jan 18, 2018
The Banishment may lack the surprise factor of The Return but it's more mature and less wedded to virtuosic technique.
By David Gritten FULL REVIEW
90
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.
By Mary Corliss FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 18, 2018
There is an outstanding film somewhere inside this sprawling mass of ideas, which might have been shaped more exactingly in the edit.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
60
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.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW
40
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.
By Dave Calhoun FULL REVIEW
30
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.
By Kirk Honeycutt FULL REVIEW

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6.7
50% Positive
5 Ratings
40% Mixed
4 Ratings
10% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
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40% Mixed
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10% Negative
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Production Company Ren-TV
Release Date Jan 18, 2018
Duration 2 h 30 m
Genres
Tagline If you want to kill, kill. If you want to forgive, forgive.
Website https://start.ru/watch/izgnanie
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Awards

Nika Awards
• 5 Nominations
Russian Guild of Film Critics
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Festival del Cinema Europeo
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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