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Dovlatov

2018

Alexey German Jr.

Milan Maric, Danila Kozlovsky, Elena Lyadova, Svetlana Khodchenkova ...

5.5

214

Drama 'Dovlatov' charts six days in the life of brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky while watching his artist friends getting crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Even Dovlatov fans will likely agree that the movie’s strength lies in the visuals, both in terms of camerawork and Elena Okopnaya’s excellent production design"	POS
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"An evocative portrait of a stagnant era (...) Elena Okopnaya’s stylish sets with vertical interest create a sophisticated world out of time"	POS
United States	Tomris Laffly rogerebert.com	"'Dovlatov' managed to evoke in me an overall feeling of internment (...) German’s film doesn’t quite know how to let the audience in (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Keith Watson Slant	"[Dovlatov] is an engaging presence, but everyone else in the film is too flatly depicted and ill-defined to pique our interest (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	C.J. Prince The Film Stage	"It makes for an engaging experience, one that tweaks the biopic format to something more unconventional in its approach."	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"Overall, the film catches the mood of both memory and dream, and of an era in Russian history that could now be too easily forgotten."	POS
	Ola Salwa Cineuropa	"Unfortunately, the film feels stale for the most part. 'Dovlatov' (...) doesn’t present a unique perspective on the times or the people it shows. On the other hand, the visual narrative is certainly alluring"	NEU

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