This year’s Directors’ Fortnight lineup at Cannes is among the most invigorating, freshly imagined and stunningly provocative in years. Granted it has always been stacked with discoveries, yet to go from Brand New Landscape to The President’s Cake to Militantropos is a rich bounty. Each has a distinctive presence of its own, despite harking to familiar registers, stories, generic predispositions. Militantropos is among a fast-mushrooming breed of bravura Ukraine documentaries that walk right into the middle of the warzone. But it’s not so much about the raining bombs as the hollowing out of landscapes, regular citizens wrangling to put back their lives together in the wake of unimaginable tragedy. Defined as the state of an individual entering war, Militantropos probes a collective consciousness that has been put through an endless trial of violence, trying to comprehend an anchorage within it and slipping. Debris are as organic to...
- 5/22/2025
- by Debanjan Dhar
- High on Films
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