Andrey Zvyagintsev & I@Minotaur Director

enjoying time with Russian exile, visionary auteur, & fellow Principled Rebel Andrey Zvyagintsev, director of both Leviathan & his latest masterpiece Minotaur, after last night's Film Independent screening of the latter at The Crescent Theater...LOVE THIS FILM, as Zvyagintsev has made another remarkable film full of moral clarity that will get up the nose of all the right people. He may just be the greatest Russian filmmaker since Tarkovsky, and he’s definitely the ballsiest...Still carrying the torch of transcendental cinema, Zvyagintsev has made a most ferocious film that speaks to our times...Don't look away. And don't pretend this is just a story about Russia. This is not only about saving Ukraine... It's about saving the world. It's about excavating the rot from every corner of this planet...Zvyagintsev sets the thorny and homicidal marriage drama against Russia’s war on Ukraine, turning it into a portrait about abuses of power, just as our Killing Justice/Orphan Rising book/film project does with both governmental and interpersonal abuses of power, with a cynical punchline that hits hard...In the film, Gleb, a successful Russian businessman, has his life upended by Putin’s military draft, in 2022. He is forced to make an offering to the state: 14 draftees for the war. The number is a gesture at the film’s titular allusion. According to Greek mythology, every nine years Athens had to send 14 young people to the Minotaur’s labyrinth, in Crete, where they were devoured as sacrificial victims. “The implication is that power preserves itself at the expense of its subjects,” Joshua Yaffa writes...it opens on theaters on November 20th, so GO SEE IT!)...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTHeFP0mcuk