When feeling nothing’s more there to say, be open, adventurous, mischievous, curious. Quite. Own terms. No one else’s. Julia Loktev’s 5h doc could easily have been a 90min slot. Sound bites like everything else, only more ruffling notable. Thank you. Very very much. Thanks moving on. Not something possible with My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow. Julia Loktev is Frederick Wiseman in that one needs see all the details, their context ever getting involved beyond simple, soulful, sorrowful voyeur. Brave, beautiful Russian people. Citizen journalists jumping through all the hoops without becoming Rodchenko relegated to pics of the State Circus. World parallel political obvious. Scary so closer to home. Centuries wars of sovereignty. For what? For whom? Meow!
Inevitable questions at Cannes Film Festival 2026 about what role film in a world wrought in political upheaval. Ken Loach’s screen writer and Cannes jury member Paul Laverty: “the Greek polis, means about the city, the meanings of how human beings behave with each other … in the deeper sense of how we treat each other. Power values are encrusted in every type of script or any type of story.”
