Closeness

2017 [RUSSIAN]

Action / Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 67% · 15 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 67% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 3431 3.4K

Plot summary

1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.

Director

Kantemir Balagov Photo
Kantemir Balagov

Top cast

Darya Zhovner Photo
Darya Zhovner as Ilana 'Ila' Koft
Veniamin Kac Photo
Veniamin Kac as David Koft
Olga Dragunova Photo
Olga Dragunova as Adina Koft
Atrem Cipin Photo
Atrem Cipin as Avi Koft
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.1 GB
978*720
Russian 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   fr  
23.976 fps
2 hr 2 min
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2.26 GB
1456*1072
Russian 5.1
NR
Subtitles us   fr  
23.976 fps
2 hr 2 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by hawk31095 7 / 10

An intriguing debut

A really interesting debut from Balagov that earned him the favour of critics at the Cannes film festival in 2017.This movie represents a very deep dive in the patriarchal culture, permeating Russia and North Caucasus in general, how the women struggle with the lack of ability to choose their own path, the way they are treated by their parents and everyone around them. At the same time, it is also a dive into the idea of toxic mother's love, that gets overbearing and, at times quite literally, to the point of choking the children.Also, about the violence, which some of the previous rewires have deemed unnecessary - unfortunately, it was necessary, as it drives the plot and the ethnic conflict between the native ethnicities of North Caucasus and everyone else. It is also an important contextual detail to understanding why the family feels alienated.
Reviewed by linistea 10 / 10

Thoughtful and unforgettable

This movie is amazing and thought provoking, though difficult to watch at times. But no more difficult to watch than real life, real life of people trapped in wars they didn't create, women trapped in family roles decided for them, real life of small communities divided by identity wars where there is disregard and cruelty for the other just because they are part of another "tribe". There is a real footage of gruesome violence by Chechen militants that brought a lot of critique and controversy. The fact that people complain about this only shows their privilege: they have the power to complain about seeing that in the safety of their environment, on a tv screen. Real people who grew up witnessing and living through that don't have any power to complain about it.
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