When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures, an increasingly unstable world, and the discovery of his wife’s affair, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.

“…a coldly crystalline game of composition and duration, of cinematic space and time. Cinematographer Mikhail Krichman’s impeccable frames are often elegantly half-empty, while Zvyagintsev’s editing indulges his trademark tic of hanging onto the end of a shot after the action is done, for a beat or seven longer than necessary or comfortable. Somehow, given all this room, a simple domestic drama — actually Zvyagintsev and co-writer Simon Lyashenko’s adaptation of Claude Chabrol’s ‘The Unfaithful Wife’ — expands into a potent and perfectly mapped allegory for the mechanisms of Russian authoritarianism which, once it’s seen, cannot be unseen.” ~ Jessica Kiang, Sight & Sound

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