Venice review: 'DAU' epic reaches its central figure, physicist Lev Landau
A Guardian review of the Venice Film Festival examined director Ilya Krzhanovsky's decades-long 'DAU' project as it turns focus to Soviet physicist Lev Landau.
A Guardian review at the Venice Film Festival examined director Ilya Krzhanovsky's sprawling "DAU" project, a years-long undertaking centered on the Soviet scientist Lev Landau.
The review described the project's latest installment as finally focusing on the "genius maudit" figure who inspired the broader series, comparing its scale and ambition to an elaborately reconstructed historical setting.
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- DAU review – Ilya Krzhanovsky’s crazed Soviet inferno reaches its central character — The Guardian — Culture
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