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Berlin Film Review: “The Gulls”

The Gulls film Alissa Simon
Berlin Film Review: “The Gulls”

A powerfully atmospheric but narratively understated debut for talented Kalmykia-born helmer-writer Ella Manzheeva.

An unhappily married young woman who can’t quite bring herself to change her life finds that fate has a way of intervening in “The Gulls”, a powerfully atmospheric but narratively understated debut that nevertheless marks Russian helmer-writer Ella Manzheeva as a talent to watch. Manzheeva sets the minimalistic action in her homeland, Kalmykia, Read the rest of this entry »