CFF: Minotaur
TBC 141 mins
TBC 141 mins
Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival, Russian director-in-exile Andrey Zvyagintsev returns with an adaptation of Claude Chabrol’s The Unfaithful Wife, reworked to reflect the systemic corruption in his native country amid Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Minotaur follows Gleb, a company director living in the suburbs with his nuclear family, who is pressured to create a draft quota sending some staff to the frontline.
As he comes up with a sordid plan to avoid parting with his employees, Gleb discovers that his wife is cheating on him in this tense thriller.
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