Seldom retro-fitted with enough dramatic power to earn its preemptive closure.

Typically for this filmmaker, the movie has a sprawling—detractors might say structureless—narrative that juggles timelines and locations.

Of course, the first thing Kirill Serebrennikov would do upon arrival in Germany is to make a movie about a Nazi... he handles a characteristically inflammatory subject with uncharacteristic inoffensiveness, yielding limited insight.

It was really intense to see a story like this. It’s tough, it takes work, but I recommend it 100 percent. [Full review in Spanish]