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- Salon.com ' s Gary M. Kramer, praised the director's view calling it " [an] urgent, unsentimental approach [is] what makes Unclenching the Fists so potent".
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Unclenching the Fists (Russian: Разжимая кулаки, lit. 'Razzhimaya kulaki') is a 2021 Ossetian-language Russian drama film directed by Kira Kovalenko. [3] In July 2021, the film won the Un Certain Regard award at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
- Highlights The Universal Problem of Overprotectiveness
- Has The Survivor of A Terrorist Attack as The Main Character
- Stars Non-Professional Actors and Filmed in Ossetian Language
- Directed by An Up-And-Coming Female Filmmaker
- Received Critical and Festival Acclaim
Middle-aged Zaur is a helicopter parent who commands total obedience and hovers 24/7. He has three grown children who are forced to adapt to their father’s undying overprotection. The patriarchal family lives in the village of Mizur, high in the mountains of Russia’s North Ossetia, where, for generations, the young people have obeyed the elders and...
‘Unclenching the Fists’ is full of revelations, and while Ada is making plans to escape from her father’s iron grip, we find out that her family moved to Mizur following the Beslan school siege. Ada, it turns out, is a survivor of the horrific attack, with scars all over her body. The bloodiest terrorist attack in Russia’s history took place in Bes...
It’s common knowledge that Russia is a multicultural country, populated by peoples of more than 190 ethnicities. Over 100 languages and dialects are used across the country. To highlight that diversity, Kira Kovalenko decided to swim against the stream and make a Russian movie in the Ossetian language. On top of it, Kovalenko, who is highly demandi...
31-year-old Kira Kovalenko is a former student of ‘Russian Ark’ veteran director Aleksandr Sokurov, who received a lifetime achievement award from the European Film Academy in 2017. With her ginger hair and stunning looks, Kira Kovalenko could have become a silver screen siren. A rebel at heart, she chose a different, difficult path, however. She w...
Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky, a top Russian film industry player, ‘Unclenching the Fists’ had its world premiere at the highly prestigious Cannes Film Festival in 2021. The small movie with a broad, universal appeal received good reviews and became the first Russian film in history to win the Grand Prix of ‘Un Certain Regard’ program in Cannes....
Oct 5, 2021 · Kovalenko's urgent, unsentimental approach is what makes "Unclenching the Fists" so potent.
Sep 4, 2021 · Savvy viewers of bleak Eastern European festival fare will get a sense early on in “Unclenching the Fists” why “Beanpole” director Kantemir Balagov championed this Russian slice of neorealism.
- Ryan Lattanzio
Sep 12, 2021 · Unclenching the Fists is a tale of how the desolation of a nation inhabits and engraves a woman’s body, but most exceptionally, the film is built on the disorienting contradictions that make up family relations.
May 25, 2023 · The Russian director Kira Kovalenko’s moody, miserablist drama “Unclenching the Fists” captures a turning point in the life of Ada (Milana Aguzarova), a young woman trapped under her father ...
Sep 2, 2021 · Across cinema’s long lineage of stories about young women attempting to shake parental control and seize their own destinies, few protagonists have needed to escape quite as viscerally as Ada ...
