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Student

2012 1h 30m Drama List
67% Tomatometer 12 Reviews Popcornmeter 100+ Ratings
A philosophy student steers his directionless life toward the commission of a violent crime.

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Nicolas Rapold New York Times Set in modern-day Kazakhstan, where the quiet is broken only by brutishness, this classically shot and edited film is a spare yet entrancing tale drawn with precise strokes. Rated: 3.5/5 May 30, 2013 Full Review David Fear Time Out A sense of existential dread that would make the Russkie novelist beam is channeled beautifully, but for a filmmaker lauded for his minimalist aesthetic, Omirbayev sure loves broad-stroke symbolism and sloganeering. Rated: 3/5 May 28, 2013 Full Review Aaron Cutler Village Voice Darezhan Omirbaev's sixth feature-whose unnamed, largely quiet protagonist lives in a poor area of Almaty, Kazakhstan-is a pedagogical film. May 28, 2013 Full Review Joanne Laurier World Socialist Web Site Omirbayev, who has made some interesting films in the past-Cardiogram, 1995; Killer, 1998-adopts the 19th century novel's ultimate religious moralizing as the guiding principle for his movie, to an artistically debilitating effect. Jul 14, 2020 Full Review Daniel Kasman MUBI You cannot look away from Darezhan Omirbaev's "Student", as you can't look away from any of the Kazakh director's films, for each and every shot is quietly but powerfully charged. Nov 16, 2017 Full Review John Beifuss Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) 'Crime and Punishment' transplanted to post-Soviet Kazakhstan, where a ruthless new capitalism is creating millionaires and gangsters; the film suggests there isn't much difference between the two. Rated: 3/4 Aug 26, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A philosophy student steers his directionless life toward the commission of a violent crime.
Director
Darezhan Omirbayev
Producer
Limara Zjeksembajeva
Screenwriter
Darezhan Omirbayev
Production Co
Kazakhfilm Studios
Genre
Drama
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 18, 2016
Runtime
1h 30m
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