Can a movie be so long-awaited that at some point, people stop waiting for it?
For those entrenched in the international arthouse and film festival world, this is what seemed to happen with Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s DAU, a biopic about the Nobel Prize-winning quantum physicist Lev Landau that was so monumentally ambitious and cinematically excessive, it began pre-production all the way back in 2006 and is finally premiering, well, now.
The Bottom Line
Worth the long wait.
Venue: Venice Film Festival (Competition)Cast: Teodor Currentzis, Radmila Shchogolieva, Anatoly Vasiliev, Maria Nafpliotou, Vladimir Azhippo, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Dmitry CheglakovDirector: Ilya KhrzhanovskyScreenwriters: Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Susanne Marian, Vladimir Sorokin, Ilia Permyakov
