Maidan

Name: Maidan
Genre: Documentary
Released: December 12, 2014
Duration: 134 min
Rating: 86

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: December 12, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: Maidan chronicles the civil uprising that toppled the government of Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovich and has since developed into an international crisis between Russia and the West. Filmed in stunning long takes, sans commentary, Maidan is a record of a momentous historical event and an extraordinary study of the popular uprising as aMaidan chronicles the civil uprising that toppled the government of Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovich and has since developed into an international crisis between Russia and the West. Filmed in stunning long takes, sans commentary, Maidan is a record of a momentous historical event and an extraordinary study of the popular uprising as a social, cultural and philosophical phenomenon. [Cinema Guild]… Expand

Director: Sergei Loznitsa

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 134 min

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Leslie Felperin

Dec 9, 2014

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s Maidan harkens back to the heroic, journalistic roots of documentary-making and yet feels ineffably modern and formally daring. It’s a tiny marvel of a movie. Read full review

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Michael Atkinson

Dec 9, 2014

Easily the most rigorous, vital, and powerful movie of 2014, Sergei Loznitsa's Maidan may be a perfect Bazinian cinema-machine — reality is captured, crystallized, honored for its organic complexity, and delivered unpoisoned by exposition or emphasis. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

Dec 9, 2014

Beyond the film’s immediacy, “Maidan” is an impressive, bold treatment of a complex subject via rigidly formalist means Read full review

Time Out London Cath Clarke

Feb 16, 2015

Don’t watch this doc for a lesson in the crisis. Maidan is hard work, with no voiceover or interviews and just the odd scrap of information written on screen to guide you through. Read full review

John Bleasdale

Feb 18, 2015

Maidan is a stunning piece of political cinema and a documentary of quietly moving power and beauty. Read full review

Empire David Parkinson

Feb 17, 2015

Courageous and indelible account and an invaluable perspective of the protests. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Dec 11, 2014

Maidan is a film of scale and immediacy, finding artistry, for better or worse, in bearing witness. Read full review

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Khuilo-V-Putin

Oct 26, 2015

This has got to be the worst documentary I have ever seen. The "long takes" cinematography makes watching paint dry more enjoyable. And the reviews by the critics. Where did they come from? Are these critics legitimate or were they paid to lie? This so called documentary is nothing moreThis has got to be the worst documentary I have ever seen. The "long takes" cinematography makes watching paint dry more enjoyable. And the reviews by the critics. Where did they come from? Are these critics legitimate or were they paid to lie? This so called documentary is nothing more than terrible actors told to stand in front of a camera or walk by it frequently. Loznitsa also missed the fact that most protesters were young/students, not 40 and older. If you want to see an accurate depiction of the real Maidan, watch Winter on Fire.… Expand

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