Park Chan-wook’s crucial, dark humour is perhaps at its most brilliantly twisted best here in a film that lays bare the stupid lengths we’ll go to stay cogs in the corporate (paper) mill.

Dramas don't come much bleaker than Beanpole, director Kantemir Balagov's wrenching story about the damage caused by war, and the exceedingly high cost of survival.

Balagov's beautifully acted second feature...

Balagov creates a meticulously controlled but spontaneous landscape in Beanpole, where we often hear more than we see.