Increasingly violent (although always distanced), The Outskirts is at once appalling and bleakly humorous.
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New York PostV.A. Musetto
New York PostV.A. Musetto
The Outskirts, handsomely directed by Petr Lutsik, will grab people's emotions. The dark and bitter comedy deals with a corrupt, post-communist Russia.
Lutsik takes aim at reckless capitalism --- as well as the increasing Westernization of Russian filmmaking --- with a disquieting allegory that in both themes and aesthetic is an audacious throwback to pre-WWII Soviet cinema formalism.