Screening of Andrey Zvyagintsev's 'Minotaur', the Russian film that won the Grand Prix at Cannes, shown at the Phoenix Picturehouse.
Minotaur is screening at the Phoenix Picturehouse on Wednesday 11 November, as part of the Cambridge Film Festival. It's the latest from Andrey Zvyagintsev, the Russian director now living in exile, and it comes with a Grand Prix from the Cannes Film Festival.
Zvyagintsev has adapted Claude Chabrol's The Unfaithful Wife, but he's reworked it to fit his own ground: the systemic corruption of his native country during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The story follows Gleb, a company director living in the suburbs with his nuclear family. He's under pressure to draw up a draft quota that will send some of his staff to the frontline, and while he's dealing with that, he discovers his wife is cheating on him. It's a domestic drama that keeps pulling back to show the wider, more brutal picture.
The Phoenix is on Walton Street, and it's one of the city's oldest cinema spots. It opened in 1913 as the North Oxford Kinema, became the Scala in 1920, and was renamed the Phoenix after a change of ownership in 1977. The single auditorium was split into two in 1970, and in 1989 it became the first of the Picturehouse family of cinemas. It's long been one of the most important art-house screens in the UK outside London, and this is one of the films it's bringing in as part of the festival.
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Minotaur plays on 11 November at the Phoenix Picturehouse, as part of the Cambridge Film Festival.
