DOVLATOV charts six days in the life of brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky while watching his artist friends getting crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.... (Full plot summary below)
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DOVLATOV charts six days in the life of brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky while watching his artist friends getting crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.
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| Chicago ReaderBen SachsDovlatov takes the novel approach of dramatizing just six days in the protagonist's life. And where traditional biopics devote at least some time to the subjects' creative achievements, Dovlatov is concerned exclusively with the hero's failures. |
| The Film StageC.J. PrinceGerman uses this six-day window to evoke a specific time and place, and through that specificity, he creates a satisfying ode to the struggle and resilience of creating art. |
| VarietyJay WeissbergIt’s easy to simply be mesmerized by German’s exceptional talent for stage blocking and camera movements, yet while there’s much here to appreciate, the film lacks the power of “Under Electric Clouds” despite being his most emotionally approachable work to date. |
| Screen InternationalJonathan RomneyThis slow-burning, pensively drifting evocation of the times of Sergei Dovlatov is not a conventional portrait, still less a biopic, but an imaginatively realistic recreation of a bygone era of Russian culture. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDeborah Young[A] forceful presentation of an ever-timely topic. |
| CineVuePatrick GambleNo doubt many will find German’s approach pretentious and overly repetitive. |
| Slant MagazineKeith WatsonAccording tot he film, truly courageous artists aren't necessarily the ones who tackle the state head-on, but rather the ones who stay true to themselves even when no one likes what they have to say. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinA dreamy, compelling, often wry look at a writer. |
| IONCINEMA.comNicholas BellMore a portrait of a period of increasing conservative ideologies than a justifiable biopic of a determined writer, Dovlatov proves German Jr.'s ability to present something more digestible and straightforward. |
| El Pais (Spain)Jordi CostaOne week is enough to go through diverse tones within an outstanding work that captures an unbreathable vital atmosphere and resuscitates the lucidity of the writer. [Full Review in Spanish] |
