Andrey Zvyagintsev’s ‘Minotaur’ Gets Heartfelt Ten-Minute Ovation At Cannes Premiere
Andrey Zvyagintsev's film 'Minotaur' premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, receiving a ten-minute standing ovation. The film explores the unraveling life of a high-powered executive amid personal and professional crises. Critics have praised it as a significant work, adding to Zvyagintsev's esteemed reputation in cinema.
- ▪The film is Zvyagintsev's first in nearly a decade.
- ▪It features Dmitriy Mazurov and Iris Lebedeva in leading roles.
- ▪The movie is a co-production involving France, Latvia, and Germany.
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'Minotaur' Cannes Film Festival Minotaur marks the first film from acclaimed Russian auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev in the best part of a decade. At the film’s Cannes Film Festival world premiere today it received a heartfelt ten-minute standing ovation, one of the longer ovations of the festival so far. Deadline’s Stephanie Bunbury hailed the movie as “a great piece of work” in her review. The Russian-language film sees a high-powered executive’s meticulously controlled existence unravel when professional crises, global chaos, and marital betrayal converge, pushing him toward a dangerous breaking point. Dmitriy Mazurov stars as Gleb opposite Iris Lebedeva as Galina.
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