i wish eggers embraced his love of weirdness a bit more—the best parts of this were when he let himself be caught up in the weave and weft of superstition and tradition, like with the wood carvings in the forest, the church and, only for glimpses, the horrid body of the count. but because he was set on not doing the stoker version (with the train schedules and the contracts, the trappings of technological modernity) there was nothing interesting in…

i went in a bit blind and i was surprised at how much i enjoyed it and yet how unchanged my position on the whole ukraine thing remained. the film is composed of a series of vignettes that follow the life of ukrainians for about a year or so of the war. many, if not all of them, are essentially about the social reproduction of a country at war: schooling children from an air raid shelter, delivering rations to the…