
In eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda and manipulation begin to surface in this post-truth era.... (Full plot summary below)
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In eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda and manipulation begin to surface in this post-truth era.
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| Adelaide ReviewDavid 'Mad Dog' BradleyThis one plays as a sometimes fevered and typically unreliable series of near-sketches of daily life in Donbass, with the tone veering from ferocious anger, to absurdist humour... the viewer is left to make sense of it all. |
| The AustralianDavid StrattonThe pacing is deliberate but this cool approach serves only to magnify the distressing insights into a dangerous world in which lawless fanatics have assumed control. |
| The Sunday AgeCraig MathiesonUkrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa couches his bleak humour in documentary-like settings to create an environment that is unsettling and increasingly warped by its own logic. |
| NOW TorontoPaul EnnisThe film's aim is true: no one's immune from the conflict and the breakdown of the state. |
| Cinema ScopeRichard PortonAt first glance, Sergei Loznitsa's new film...seems like a scattershot series of vignettes, but eventually, Donbass' near-Buñuelian episodic structure...acquires a cumulative power. |
| IONCINEMA.comNicholas BellA completely clear-eyed composite of hellish desperation... Donbass is Loznitsa's most masterful output to date. |
| Film InquiryAlex LinesDonbass is a great example of harrowing, but undeniably compelling, filmmaking. |
| MUBIDaniel KasmanThis is the kind of film this festival should embrace, one which attacks the distress of the present with a virtuosic anger and desire to communicate experience. |
| Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangA brilliant formalist, Loznitsa likes to turn his camera on crowds in motion, turning each sequence into a collective indictment. |
| Sydney Morning HeraldSandra HallIn its own absurdist way, it does shed some light on just what the war did to the lives - and sensibilities - of civilians caught up in the nightmare. |