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Crystal Swan

Khrustal

2018

Darya Zhuk

Alina Nasibullina, Ivan Mulin, Yuriy Borisov, Svetlana Anikey ...

6.3

258

Comedy. Drama In 1990s Belarus, a wanderlust young DJ named Velja is derailed by a typo in a forged US Visa application, forcing her to a backwater village where she is determined to fake her way to the American dream.

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"[A] spirited, bittersweet comedy (...) Its core social and economic frustrations are universal ones"	POS
United States	Matt Fagerholm rogerebert.com	"[It] is the sort of blazing triumph that would hold even the sleepiest festivalgoer in rapt attention"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"[Crystal Swan] is so effective at capturing the hopefulness of someone who's seized by the promise of a better life, and the desperation she feels when that promise starts to slip through her fingers."	POS
United States	Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"'Crystal Swan' boasts a luminous lead performance from rising Russian screen queen Alina Nasibullina, plus a sparky, sardonic script by Zhuk and Helga Laudauer"	POS
United States	Gregory Ellwood The Playlist	"[Nasibullina] makes you root for Velya despite all the character’s faults (...) You’ll find yourself wondering just what these talented ladies will do next."	POS
United Kingdom	Demetrios Matheou Screendaily	"The business with the telephone becomes repetitive and incoherent (...) The impetus isn’t entirely lost as long as Nassibulina’s wonderful creation is on screen"	NEU

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