Andrey Zvyagintsev Hails Return To Cannes With Minotaur As One Of The Best Things To Happen To Him In Nearly A Decade
News Source : Deadline
News Summary
- Andrey Zvyagintsev was last in Cannes with his penultimate film Loveless in 2017 which won the Jury Prize and went on to nominated for an Oscar.
- He nearly died from Covid during the pandemic and then found himself living in exile in France after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
- His new films taps into the mood in his native Russia in 2022 with a twist-laden tale of privilege, betrayal, jealously, primordial survival instinct and compromise in a Russian provincial city.
Exiled Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev has expressed his pleasure at being back at the Cannes Film Festival with Palme dOr contender Minotaur after a near decade absence .
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