Banishment

The Banishment (Izgnanie) (2007)

The Banishment first published by Film4 Synopsis: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Bible-inflected follow-up to The Return banishes a family forever from its fragile idyll. Review:  If Andrey Zvyagintsev’s astonishing debut The Return (2003) was a barebones mystery thriller whose characters and their interrelationships were elevated to the realm of mythic archetypes, then his long-awaited second feature The Banishment, pulling…

Return

The Return (Vozvrashchenie) (2003)

The Return first published by Movie Gazette One Sunday on an isolated stony pier, some boys goad one another on to jump from a tall wooden tower into the water far below. The older of the two remaining boys, Andrej (Vladimir Garin), desperate not to be thought a coward by his peers, takes the leap, but…