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Harmony Lessons

Uroki Garmonii (Harmony Lessons)

2013

Emir Baigazin

Timur Aidarbekov, Aslan Anarbayev, Mukhtar Andassov, Anelya Adilbekova ...

6.8

290

Drama During a medical examination, 13-year-old Aslan is humiliated in front of a load of his fellow pupils. The incident unleashes his latent personality disorder. Plagued by self-doubt, he strives for cleanliness and perfection and is obsessed with trying to control everything around him. His compulsion draws Aslan, who lives with his grandmother in a village in Kazakhstan, into increasingly difficult situations. He abhors the way most of ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"An uncommonly accomplished debut feature signaling the arrival of a talent to watch (...) Grimly poetic, formally disciplined and psychologically gripping"	POS
United States	Leslie Felperin Variety	"A disturbing study in crime and punishment that evokes, among others, Kieslowski and Bresson"	POS

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