Latvian Radio critics discuss Zvyagintsev's «Minotaur» and Corbijn's «Ripley's Talent to Kill»

On the Latvijas Radio programme «Kur kritiķiem nav vietas» («Where Critics Have No Place»), film critics Darta Ceriņa and Julien Nouhoum Coulibaly have turned to two films linked by the theme of murder. Both works are assessed from a critic's point of view.

The first is the drama «Minotaur» by Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev, which received the Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival, the festival's main jury award. The second is the thriller «Ripley» (known in Russian as «Talent to Kill») by Dutch photographer and director Anton Corbijn.

What the programme covers

In the conversation, the critics consider how little is needed for someone to be regarded as an oppositionist in the eyes of the West. This question is tied to the discussion of Zvyagintsev's film.

They also consider what remains of a film in which everything has already been seen before. This point relates to the discussion of the thriller.

«Kur kritiķiem nav vietas» is a Latvijas Radio film programme in which movies are analysed and debated. This time the focus is on two quite different works that share a murder motif but are examined from different angles.

The source gives no further details about the programme.