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A Gentle Creature (Krotkaya) [Sub: Eng]
A woman lives alone on the outskirts of a village in Russia. One day she receives a parcel she sent to her incarcerated husband, marked 'return to sender'. Shocked and confused, the woman has no choice but to travel to the prison in a remote region of the country in search of an explanation. So begins the story of a battle against this impenetrable fortress, the prison where the forces of social evil are constantly at work. Braving violence and humiliation, in the face of all opposition, our protagonist embarks on a blind quest for justice.
December 28, 1963 in Yekaterinburg, Russia
December 22, 1967 in Moldova
12 September 1961, Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
November 30, 1974
August 22, 1955 in Legnica, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
April 12, 2018
Putting a Grimm slant on a Dostoevskian fable, Sergei Loznitsa exposes the Russian soul to pitiless scrutiny in this gruelling odyssey.
May 25, 2017
A Gentle Creature is not what one might call a fun watch. But it's also obviously not just horror for horror's sake.
April 10, 2018
Leading man Neumann is a find in his screen debut, with the looks of 'Liberty Valance'-era Lee Van Cleef.
April 18, 2018
The film gives us a rich, clammy idea of Russia's horrors as we follow a woman (Vasilina Makovtseva) into a bureaucratic hell.
May 26, 2017
The sheer scope of the project demands recognition. It misses the moon by a galaxy, but at least it is has the nerve to take the shot.
April 17, 2018
A Gentle Creature is too overblown with its anti-Russia stance, consistently missing the intended target of the country's suffocating bureaucracy in order to portray ordinary Russians as being as corrupt as those in charge.
August 27, 2018
A Gentle Creature truly is a grotesque, Kafka-esque nightmare vision, a nihilistic yowl of pain.
April 14, 2018
This challenging film requires some patience but the reward is a portrait of Russia that feels like a howl of anguish.
May 25, 2017
A captivating, hallucinatory plunge into Russia's atrophied civil society, in which a woman's search for answers is rewarded with humiliation and abuse.
April 13, 2018
[A Gentle Creature] is a wonderfully strange and thought-provoking cinematic experience.
April 18, 2018
It's not an easy film to watch, packed with symbolism and references that will be lost on most Western viewers.
April 10, 2018
After two-and-a-half hours of punishing, brutal drama, you'll probably feel almost as battered as the poor heroine.

