★★★☆☆ Despite Putin's 'gay propaganda' law banning the promotion of "non-standard sexual relations", Liubov Lvova and Sergei Taramaev's Winter Path (2013) somehow managed to gain a distribution licence from the Ministry of Culture - though its inconspicuous release and limited festival run tells a different story. Whilst by no means Russia's first gay-themed feature (that honour belongs to Yuriy Pavlov's 1994 effort The Creation of Adam, released just after former leader Boris Yeltsin decriminalised homosexuality), Winter Path does illustrate cinema's instrumental role in challenging contentious sociopolitical statutes.
- 11/17/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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