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Shuga (Chouga)

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David Phelps Slant Magazine 10/09/2008
3.5/4
Perhaps no director since Hitchcock has been quite this obsessed with glimpses and gazes. Go to Full Review
David Walsh World Socialist Web Site 02/13/2021
The story and its components are not developed adequately; everything takes place in a rush. Omirbaev seems to assume our sympathy and interest, rather than arouse and develop them. Go to Full Review
Eric Hynes Stop Smiling 08/23/2017
An adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina transposed to contemporary Kazakhstan, Chouga is a masterful distillation of the great novel's characterizations and themes. Go to Full Review
Leo Goldsmith Reverse Shot 08/08/2009
Ramps down Tolstoy's soap-opera grandiosity, while still managing to elevate the banalities of a high-society dalliance to the level of a cosmic psychodrama Go to Full Review
Kent Turner Film-Forward.com 07/31/2009
2/5
Chouga never loses control%u2014a performance Lana Turner would be proud of. Go to Full Review
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Director
Darezhan Omirbayev