1988 · documentary · latvian
Documentarist
Directed by Harutyun Khachatryan1h 2m1988
In beautiful black & white, this documentary maker provides his often sombre view of his home country of Armenia, one of the former Soviet republics that found itself in an economic, political and social crisis after independence.
Our read: Documentarist (1988) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive documentary · latvian entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured documentary / latvian, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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