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My Joy

Tuesday, April 19
Presented by Cassio de Oliveira, Lecturer in Russian.
Ukraine (2010) Dir: Sergei Loznitsa.

A truck driver takes a wrong turn and  finds himself lost in a bleak Russian underworld,struggling to survive amidst violent reminders of the country-€™s dark history. The  first  fiction  film by documentarian Loznitsa,  My Joy  is a mischievous, ultra-nihilistic parable of post-Communist Russia, shot by master cinematographer Oleg Muto (The Deathof Mr. Lazarescu; 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days). Russian with English subtitles. Unrated. 127 minutes. 35mm.  Presented in  collaboration with the department of Germanic & Slavic Languages.