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This is the last film ever banned in the Soviet Union -- even though no-one     
seems to agree if that's for obscene language, full frontal nudity, or invoking 
the wisdom of Mikhail Gorbachev inside a mental asylum. In the film itself,     
no-one can agree on anything either: most arguments derail, and most characters 
oscillate between short outbursts of violence and a deep, inexplicable fatigue. 
Not even the film agrees with itself: it's one of the rare pieces of cinema     
that are radically formalist and radically burlesque at the same time, and      
while its structure -- the film-in-film, the twin characters, and several       
scences that are happening twice -- may appear vaguely Lynchian, there is no    
higher order or deeper mystery. When society falls apart, cinema must fall      
apart, and Kira Muratova's film marks exactly that moment. It has been hailed   
as "the most truthful cinematic reflection of life under perestroika", but      
it's never allegorical, and we might just as well stress that it contains the   
most convincing cut to a dog shelter in the entire history of Russian cinema.   
                                                                                
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                                                            pirate cinema berlin
                                                                u kottbusser tor
                                                          sunday may 29, 8:30 pm
                                                                                
                                                           the asthenic syndrome
                                      kira muratova, 1990, 156 min, english subs
                                                        https://0xdb.org/0096841
                                                                                
                                                                  12 seats, rsvp
                                                          first come first serve
                                                       location in separate mail
                                                                                
                                                                       trailers:
                                  https://piratecinema.org/trailers/#20160529-01
                                  https://piratecinema.org/trailers/#20160529-02
                                                                                
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