Crystal Swan

Name: Crystal Swan
Genre: Drama
Released: May 23, 2020
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Alina Nasibullina, Anastasia Garvey, Anatoliy Golub, Artem Kuren, Ilya Kapanets

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MUBI | Release Date (Streaming): May 23, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Alina Nasibullina, Anastasia Garvey, Anatoliy Golub, Artem Kuren, Ilya Kapanets, Ivan Mulin, Lyudmila Razumova, Natalya Onishenko, Svetlana Anikey, Yuriy Borisov

Summary: In 1990s Belarus, a wanderlust young DJ is derailed by a typo in a forged US Visa application, forcing her to a backwater village where she is determined to fake her way to the American dream.

Director: Darya Zhuk

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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Guy Lodge

May 21, 2020

No community is as straightforward as it seems in Zhuk and Landauer’s irony-rich, tone-switching script: What begins as a kookily comic quest is complicated by the emergence of human tragedy, prejudice and sexual threat. Read full review

Diego Semerene

May 20, 2020

Throughout the film, it’s as if mundane objects hold the remedies for the wretchedness of everyday life. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

May 21, 2020

The American Dream may be a mass delusion, but it’s the realest thing in the world to those under its sway. Zhuk was able to manifest her destiny and make it across the ocean, and her movie offers a compelling glimpse at why that may have been the only choice her country ever gave her. Read full review

The Playlist Gregory Ellwood

May 21, 2020

What there is, however, is Nasibullina and she makes you root for Velya despite all the character’s faults Read full review

Demetrios Matheou

May 21, 2020

The debut feature by Belarus-born, US-educated Darya Zhuk may be set in the mid-90s, but with a plot founded on a young Belarussian’s obsessive desire for an American visa, and a sting in the tale that chimes with the #metoo movement, it has a remarkably topical ring to it. Read full review

Stephen Dalton

May 21, 2020

Despite its relatively unusual setting, Crystal Swan is a largely conventional fish-out-of-water story at heart. But it is elevated above the routine by its excellent cast, especially Nassibulina, and plenty of visual flair. Read full review

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