Unclenching the Fists | |
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Directed by | Kira Kovalenko |
Written by | Kira Kovalenko |
Produced by | Sergey Melkumov Aleksandr Rodnyansky |
Starring | Milana Aguzarova |
Cinematography | Pavel Fomintsev |
Edited by | Vincent Deveaux Mukharam Kabulova |
Production company | Non-Stop Productions |
Distributed by | Pioneer |
Release dates |
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Running time | 97 minutes [1] |
Country | Russia |
Language | Ossetian [2] |
Unclenching the Fists ( Russian: Разжимая кулаки, lit. 'Razzhimaya kulaki') is a 2021 Ossetian-language Russian drama film directed by Kira Kovalenko. [3] In July 2021, the film won the Un Certain Regard award at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. [4] [5] It was selected as the Russian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. [6]
Ada, stifled by her overbearing father and by her lack of prospects, dreams of escaping from her life in a small town of Mizur in North Ossetia, Russia. [2]
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 86% based on 22 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The website's critical consensus states: "A daring feature debut for director/co-writer Kira Kovalenko, Unclenching the Fists, explores how family ties can stifle as much as they support". [7] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [8]
In their co-authored review for the Los Angeles Review of Books', Alexis Bliziotis and Sasha Karsavina analyse the film as a metaphor for Russia's current cultural climate of historical revisionism, in which ethnic and linguistic minorities get erased and forgotten. [1]
Salon.com's Gary M. Kramer, praised the director's view calling it "[an] urgent, unsentimental approach [is] what makes Unclenching the Fists so potent". [9]
Diego Semerene of Slant Magazine wrote "Unclenching the Fists is a tale of how the desolation of a nation inhabits and engraves a woman's body". [10]
Unclenching the Fists | |
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Directed by | Kira Kovalenko |
Written by | Kira Kovalenko |
Produced by | Sergey Melkumov Aleksandr Rodnyansky |
Starring | Milana Aguzarova |
Cinematography | Pavel Fomintsev |
Edited by | Vincent Deveaux Mukharam Kabulova |
Production company | Non-Stop Productions |
Distributed by | Pioneer |
Release dates |
|
Running time | 97 minutes [1] |
Country | Russia |
Language | Ossetian [2] |
Unclenching the Fists ( Russian: Разжимая кулаки, lit. 'Razzhimaya kulaki') is a 2021 Ossetian-language Russian drama film directed by Kira Kovalenko. [3] In July 2021, the film won the Un Certain Regard award at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. [4] [5] It was selected as the Russian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. [6]
Ada, stifled by her overbearing father and by her lack of prospects, dreams of escaping from her life in a small town of Mizur in North Ossetia, Russia. [2]
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 86% based on 22 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The website's critical consensus states: "A daring feature debut for director/co-writer Kira Kovalenko, Unclenching the Fists, explores how family ties can stifle as much as they support". [7] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [8]
In their co-authored review for the Los Angeles Review of Books', Alexis Bliziotis and Sasha Karsavina analyse the film as a metaphor for Russia's current cultural climate of historical revisionism, in which ethnic and linguistic minorities get erased and forgotten. [1]
Salon.com's Gary M. Kramer, praised the director's view calling it "[an] urgent, unsentimental approach [is] what makes Unclenching the Fists so potent". [9]
Diego Semerene of Slant Magazine wrote "Unclenching the Fists is a tale of how the desolation of a nation inhabits and engraves a woman's body". [10]