2018 · drama · musical · biography
Leto
Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov2h 6m2018
Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoi. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.
Our read: Leto (2018) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive drama · musical · biography entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, measured drama / musical, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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