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A Gentle Creature (2017)

Film
DirectorSergei Loznitsa
Meta takes4

Figures

Characters
  • The protagonist's quest for information
  • The protagonist's journey as a whole → National Allegory
  • The protagonist's silent, suffering body → The Abject
Locations
  • The Prison and its surrounding town
  • The film's episodic journey into the town's underworld
Form & technique
  • Narrative structure as Dostoevskian intertext
  • The final dream sequence
  • The protagonist's passive wandering and the film's pacing → The Time-Image
  • The film's off-screen and ambient sound design → The Unseen Voice
Tropes
  • Casting of non-professional actors and static long takes

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