In the grasslands of Southern Ukraine, between Crimea and mainland Ukraine, a natural history researcher named Yura (Dmytro Bahnenko) is hoping to track down and photograph a groundhog. If he succeeds, the land can be protected as a European reserve. This apparently simple premise — the kernel at the outset of “The Editorial Office” — can’t begin to hint at the rugged tapestry of thematic and topical threads that Roman Bondarchuk’s second narrative feature proceeds to weave together, the unique product of both the director’s vision and ambition, and also of the circumstances under which it gestated.
Set and shot just before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and completed during the war, the film closes with a dedication to editor Viktor Onysko, who lost his life in the conflict during a combat mission.
While attempting to track his groundhog target, Yura catches some arsonists on camera as they set a forest fire.
Set and shot just before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and completed during the war, the film closes with a dedication to editor Viktor Onysko, who lost his life in the conflict during a combat mission.
While attempting to track his groundhog target, Yura catches some arsonists on camera as they set a forest fire.
- 2/17/2024
- by Catherine Bray
- Variety Film + TV
Ukrainian director Roman Bondarchuk and his co-writers, Alla Tyutyunnyk - who is also the filmmaker’s mum - Dar'ya Averchenko return to the southern Ukraine for their satirical and often surreal follow-up to 2018’s Volcano. Like their first film, the action centres on a protagonist who becomes a sort of innocent abroad in events he can’t quite wrap his head around or extract himself from.
Yuri, is a biologist on the trail of rare steppe marmots when he witnesses a group of arsonists starting a forest blaze. His bid to expose the culprits sees him sucked into a world of fake news and political gamesmanship in the chaotic, pre-Russian invasion Kherson region.
The crux of the film hinges on truth and lies. Not...
Yuri, is a biologist on the trail of rare steppe marmots when he witnesses a group of arsonists starting a forest blaze. His bid to expose the culprits sees him sucked into a world of fake news and political gamesmanship in the chaotic, pre-Russian invasion Kherson region.
The crux of the film hinges on truth and lies. Not...
- 2/16/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Ukrainian director Roman Bondarchuk and his co-writers, Alla Tyutyunnyk - who is also the filmmaker’s mum - Dar'ya Averchenko return to the southern Ukraine for their satirical and often surreal follow-up to 2018’s Volcano. Like their first film, the action centres on a protagonist who becomes a sort of innocent abroad in events he can’t quite wrap his head around or extract himself from.
Yuri, is a biologist on the trail of rare steppe marmots when he witnesses a group of arsonists starting a forest blaze. His bid to expose the culprits sees him sucked into a world of fake news and political gamesmanship in the chaotic, pre-Russian invasion Kherson region.
The crux of the film hinges on truth and lies. Not...
Yuri, is a biologist on the trail of rare steppe marmots when he witnesses a group of arsonists starting a forest blaze. His bid to expose the culprits sees him sucked into a world of fake news and political gamesmanship in the chaotic, pre-Russian invasion Kherson region.
The crux of the film hinges on truth and lies. Not...
- 2/16/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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