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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 24 February 2018
Russia's Oscar hopeful gains

attention as U.S. ties worsen

By KATE DE PURY
MOSCOW (AP) — For the
second time in four years,
Russian director Andrei Zvy-
agintsev is on the shortlist
for a foreign-film Oscar, this
time for "Loveless," a gruel-
ing examination of adults'
misguided search for satis-
faction and the child who
In this image released by HBO, Kathy Baker, left, and Al Pacino suffers from their disap-
portray Sue and Joe Paterno in a scene from "Paterno," a film pointment.
about the late Penn State football coach. In an interview with The As-
Associated Press sociated Press, Zvyagint-
HBO biopic about Penn sev resisted being seen as In this photo taken on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, Russian film direc-
a cultural ambassador for
State's Joe Paterno Russia — though he con- tor and screenwriter Andrei Zvyagintsev speaks during an inter-
view with The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia.
ceded that the worsening
Associated Press
relations with the United
premieres April 7 States could bring his film something confined to the search ends in a rotting
elevated attention.
The director, who was nom- Russian world. It's more like Soviet-era cultural center
NEW YORK (AP) — An HBO history was fired days af- inated in 2015 for his pow- a problem of all humanity," littered with glass shards,
biopic starring Al Pacino ter Sandusky's 2011 arrest erful political fable of cor- he said. and the boy is nowhere to
as late Penn State football and died two months later ruption in the magnificently Yet he references today's be seen. "There is a state of
coach Joe Paterno will pre- at age 85. A report com- bleak far north, "Leviathan," Russia throughout the story. apathy, distrust, no wish to
miere April 7. HBO tweeted missioned by the university said it would be wrong to The characters are people participate, a lack of belief
the premiere date Friday, and conducted by a team interpret "Loveless" and its who have done well under that anything will change.
along with a trailer to the led by former FBI Director harsh view of human rela- the rule of President Vladi- This is the political winter,
film directed by Barry Levin- Louis Freeh concluded Pa- tions as a portrait of con- mir Putin. They have a new this is the most frightening
son. HBO has said the film terno and three administra- temporary Russia. flat in a suburban develop- thing," he said. Some Rus-
will focus on Paterno deal- tors hushed up the allega- The protagonists, Boris and ment, Boris has a job in a sians reject the film's por-
ing with fallout from the tions against Sandusky. Zhenya, are a couple at modern-looking office, and trayal of their country, but
child sex abuse scandal The three administrators the end of an unhappy Zhenya indulges in expen- Zvyagintsev dismissed such
involving former assistant were sentenced to jail. marriage. When their son sive spa treatments. views as a reflection of his
coach Jerry Sandusky. The Former university President Alyosha goes missing, they But "the political context of critics' own shortcomings.
all-time winningest coach Graham Spanier is appeal- are forced to search for course affects the spiritual "It's like the fairy tale with
in major college football ing his conviction.q him together, but this only climate," Zvyagintsev said. the mirror on the wall which
As husband and wife replies 'You are the fairest
fight, take new partners of them all' until that time
Chef Jose Andres writing book and search for their son, when it speaks the truth
a larger conflict between and the queen breaks it
on Hurricane Maria relief work Russia and Ukraine plays and throws it to the floor,"
out shrilly on TV screens in he said.
While Russian political lead-
the background. Zvyagint-
sev said he finds the split ers objected strongly to the
NEW YORK (AP) — Award- with Ukraine painful, partly depiction of pervasive cor-
winning chef Jose Andres because it hits so close to ruption in "Leviathan," the
is working on a book about home: his father is Ukrainian official reaction to "Love-
his efforts to help Puerto and his mother Russian. less" has been positive.
Rico after Hurricane Maria. The movie is set in a time When "Loveless" was nomi-
Ecco told The Associated when increasing state con- nated for an Oscar, Culture
Press on Wednesday that trol in Russia saw "a tight- Minister Vladimir Medinsky
it has acquired "We Fed An ening of the screws, prison said he would be happy
Island: The True Story of Re- terms for those who took if it wins. Last year, when
building Puerto Rico, One part in protests, the repres- the film won the Jury Prize
Meal at a Time." The book sion of any protest move- at Cannes, Prime Minister
is scheduled for Sept. 11 ment, the crushing of any Dmitry Medvedev sent a
and is co-written by Rich- hopes of changing the po- telegram to congratulate
ard Wolffe. A portion of litical and spiritual climate Zvyagintsev, praising it as
proceeds will be given to In this March 21, 2016, file photo Spanish-American chef Jose for the better," he noted. a "film that poignantly and
the Chef Relief Network Andres answers questions during a panel discussion at an event Amid the desolation— the honestly tells a family histo-
of Andres' nonprofit World on entrepreneurship at La Cerveceria, in Havana, Cuba. movie opens and closes ry with its difficult relations,
Central Kitchen. Also on Associated Press with the land locked in win- feelings and emotions that
Wednesday, the James ter — the only positive fig- concern everyone." “In the
Beard Foundation cited his manitarian of the Year." "We Fed an Island" will be ures are a neighborhood best result they say ‘I recog-
further exposes their bleak
efforts in feeding millions The foundation called him released through Anthony volunteer group who help nize myself and it’s made
relationships.
of Puerto Ricans after the a "committed advocate of Bourdain's imprint at Ecco. search for Alyosha when me want to improve, to do
"It's a modern malaise, not
storm in naming him "Hu- food and hunger issues." q the police give up. But their things better,’” he said.q