MONOS, Alejandro Landes’ awe-inspiring third feature, is a breathtaking survivalist saga set on a remote mountain in Latin America. The film tracks a young group of soldiers and rebels --bearing names like Rambo, Smurf, Bigfoot, Wolf and Boom-Boom --who keep watch over an American hostage, Doctora (Julianne Nicholson). The teenage commandos perform military training exercises […]
Find out more »Shepitko’s emotionally overwhelming final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and has been hailed around the world as the finest Soviet film of its decade. Set during World War II's darkest days, The Ascent follows the path of two peasant soldiers, cut off from their troop, who trudge through the snowy backwoods […]
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