Andrei Konchalovsky’s film is more than an exercise, as pitiless moments accumulate with enraged relentlessness.
Whereas Wong Kar-wai has found himself ensnared by his genre of choice, Thomas Arslan has kept a healthy distance from his own: the western.
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