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My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow

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Julia Loktev documents independent journalists in Moscow facing government crackdown as Russia invades Ukraine, capturing their fight for speech amid risks of being branded "foreign agents" and the country's drift towards authoritarianism.

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Keith Uhlich Slant Magazine In a strange and very sad way, the Ukraine invasion gives Julia Loktev’s movie its sense of purpose. Rated: 3/4 Oct 7, 2024 Full Review Alison Willmore New York Magazine/Vulture Loktev’s film is a stunningly stressful experience in what it’s like to actually decide when the desire to stay and fight should give way to the need to cut and run. Oct 7, 2024 Full Review Lauren Wissot indieWire While five-plus hours of mostly hanging out in strangers’ apartments might seem like an increasingly tedious invitation, Loktev ends up justifying the running time as her “undesirable friends” soon become ours as well. Rated: A- Oct 2, 2024 Full Review Luke Hicks The Film Stage Through Loktev’s run-and-gun immersion in their world, we begin to understand how the groundwork is laid to propagandize and miseducate the masses, a huge swath of whom see straight through it. Rated: B+ Oct 17, 2024 Full Review Hector A. Gonzalez The Movie Buff Each chapter that Loktev frames is robust. It grows in urgency as it runs its course. Rated: B+ Oct 14, 2024 Full Review Alex Lei In Review Online There’s a classical dramatic tension to My Undesirable Friends — with us the viewers aware of the documentary subjects’ destinies before they are. It makes it all the more haunting how quiet the slow build over the near five-and-a-half-hour runtime is. Oct 9, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis Julia Loktev documents independent journalists in Moscow facing government crackdown as Russia invades Ukraine, capturing their fight for speech amid risks of being branded "foreign agents" and the country's drift towards authoritarianism.
Director
Julia Loktev
Producer
Julia Loktev
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
Russian
Runtime
5h 24m