A witty, literate and dreamy meditation on lost love, set in the snowy, foggy Russian WWI front of cinema’s imagined past. I’d seen two of Maddin’s other features and a handful of his shorts before this — this may be a good place for newcomers to start. The Eisenstein-on-speed element is here, as is the post-modern melodrama.
Welcome
Jordan Hoffman is a New York-based writer and film critic working for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Thrillist, Times of Israel, NY Daily News and elsewhere.
He is the host of ENGAGE: The Official Star Trek Podcast, a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and challenges you to a game of backgammon.
