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Klondike

Submissions for Best International Feature (Academy Awards 2023)

Klondike

2022

Maryna Gorbach

Oksana Cherkashyna, Evgeniy Efremov, Sergey Shadrin, Artur Aramyan ...

6.6

247

Drama. War The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia and Ukraine during the start of the war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village gets captured by armed forces. Shortly after they find themselves at the center of an international air crash catastrophe on July 17, 2014.

	Author	Review
	Elena Lazic Cineuropa	"Taking place in eastern Ukraine in the early days of the Donbas war, Maryna Er Gorbach’s poetic and imaginative film evokes the surreal atmosphere of a peculiar conflict"	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Harrowing (...) Uncompromising, formally remarkable (...) Potent film, shot in unbroken, unblinking takes that observe obscene violence and destruction with cold candor"	POS
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"Klondike is both despairing – sometimes in a blackly comic vein – and empathetic"	POS
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"A harrowing Ukrainian drama set at the start of the war"	POS
United States	David Katz The Film Stage	"'Klondike' acquits itself well and chimes with the gallows humor through which Eastern Europeans often look at the travails of their history (...) One of the stronger dramatizations of this crucial moment in recent history"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A harrowing and darkly comic marital drama"	POS
	David Katz Cineuropa	"Maryna Er Gorbach offers an unblinking gaze into the abyss, a pitiless panorama of struggle—all very uninterested in the verité-style images that supposedly give films on this subject some sense of authenticity."	POS
United States	Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"[It] is certainly not an easy watch, but it is a profound one — a film that feels both prescient and retrospective about Ukraine, locked in what seems a never-ending existential conflict with its neighbor"	POS
United States	Stephanie Bunbury Deadline	"In every frame, thanks to the tremendous performances by the three principal actors, we recognize the personal cost of that break. It’s an access to knowledge that is profoundly rewarding"	POS
United States	Christy Lemire rogerebert.com	"[It] provides a fascinating juxtaposition between total disregard for human life and the possibility of hope for the future (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Leslie Felperin The Guardian	"A powerful statement that lingers in the mind long after the final credits roll (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"A harsh but powerful movie"	POS

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