2012 · dostoevsky · crime · minimal
Student
Directed by Darezhan Omirbayev1h 30m2012
Spurred by his own postmodern musings and the growing inequality, corruption, and kill-or-be-killed ethic of post-Soviet Kazakhstan, a solitary philosophy student steers his directionless life toward the commission of a violent crime, which leads to growing guilt.
Our read: Student (2012) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, grounded dostoevsky · crime · minimal entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, slow-burn, measured dostoevsky / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- slow-burn
- bleak
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