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.