Stop-Zemlia

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Stop-Zemlia

Released Jan 21, 2022

2h 2m

Drama

Romance

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Navigating the emotional turmoil of waiting for life to begin while hanging around with classmates - a radical, authentic, and sensitive insight into the unsettling feeling of being young and an inside perspective on Ukrainian youth.

Cath Clarke

Guardian

The film is so light on its feet, and feels so effortless.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 20, 2023

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Katie Walsh

Los Angeles Times

There's something rather innocent about this depiction, which isn't trying to be a scandalous or searing portrait of youth but to create an emotionally authentic representation of this hypercharged and sensitive age.

Jan 21, 2022

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Elizabeth Weitzman

TheWrap

Thoughtful interstitial interviews with several of the teens feel fully real, and add depth. It helps, too, that the young actors are so comfortable in their roles, perhaps partly as the result of an immersive, months-long preparation process.

Jan 19, 2022

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Calum Cooper

Flick Feast

It may have a meandering feel to it, but its genuine portrayal of teenage angst and sympathetic approach to it more than makes up for this.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 15, 2024

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Whang Yee Ling

The Straits Times (Singapore)

Ukrainian cinema is often overlooked despite its presence at international festivals. This coming-of-age drama surely deserves the widest audience.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 27, 2022

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Ricardo Gallegos

La Estatuilla

A down-to-earth coming-of-age in which, with impressive confidence and a brilliant use of non-fiction, Kateryna Gornostai captures the universality of teenage life.

Apr 8, 2022

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Best film about teenagers I've ever seen

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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An Ukrainian film about the fragile and wonderful world of teenagers, about the amalgam of emotions and sensibilities that make them living in a way that adults gradually forget, becoming poorer and poorer in poetry of self-discovery.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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The directorial debut of Kateryna Gornostai, this film finds an introverted high schooler named Masha, who is only happy when she's hanging out with two other ousiders, Yana and Senia. Yet how will young love change everything? After all, Masha is in love with Sasha, Yana is in love with Senia and Senia is in love with Masha. Even though this takes place a world away — much less a world in danger of Russian troops coming into its borders and possible igniting World War III, which is hinted at in this movie when Senia attends a class explaining how to load an AK-47 — the lives of these teens don't seem all that different from our country. And it reminds me — I'm glad that I am not growing up today with the pressures of identity, social media and nonstop harassment. It all seems so confining and full of anxiety even in comparison to my teen years in the 80s. Gornostai started in documentaries and this movie uses that style throughout. It's a really earnest and nuanced take on the perils of growing up. But yeah, I'm totally good with never being a teenager ever again.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Navigating the emotional turmoil of waiting for life to begin while hanging around with classmates - a radical, authentic, and sensitive insight into the unsettling feeling of being young and an inside perspective on Ukrainian youth.

Director: Kateryna Gornostai
Producer: Olha Bregman, Viktoria Khomenko, Natalia Libet, Vitaliy Sheremetiev
Screenwriter: Kateryna Gornostai
Distributor: Altered Innocence
Production Co: ESSE Production House, Ukrainian State Film Agency, Ukrainian Cultural Foundation
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: Ukrainian
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 21, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 21, 2022
Runtime: 2h 2m

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