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Perestroika (2009)
Director: Slava Tsukerman
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From Time Out New York
A fascinatingly strange (and strained) midlife-crisis movie, Slava Tsukerman’s quasihistorical drama unspools in the year 1992, when astrophysicist Sasha (Robards) returns to Moscow from his 17-year exile to encounter thawing political conditions and unresolved affairs. Toggling between Soviet-era flashbacks and contemporary cocktail parties, Perestroika is refreshingly heady, taking cues from scientific ideas (voiced, authoritatively, by F. Murray Abraham’s mentor figure) as well as the titular “restructuring” afoot. Writer-director Tsukerman (Liquid Sky) creates an artificial flow of video backdrops and sound dubbing, resulting in something decidedly awkward, yet fetchingly personal.Author: Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York Issue 707: April 16 - 22, 2009
Cast & crew
Director: Slava Tsukerman
Cast: Sam Robards, F Murray Abraham, Ally Sheedy
Rated: NR
Duration: 97 mins
US Release: Apr 17 2009
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