world cinema
Restored in 4K and screening at the Brattle Theatre, Zhang Yimou’s sumptuous, suffocating masterpiece turns household rituals into instruments of control.
Julia Loktev’s six-hour portrait of exiled TV Rain journalists headlined a festival program along with a tale set in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s corrupt provincial Russia and Emmanuel Marre’s understated study of collaboration under Nazi occupation.
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