Minotaur
2026RELEASE DATE: November 20, 2026
| MUBI | Release Date: November 20, 2026 |
Summary:
Russia, 2022. When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures and an increasingly unstable world, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.
Genre(s):
Drama, Thriller, Crime
Runtime:
135 min
AwardsWatch
Jun 5, 2026
The Guardian
May 20, 2026
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May 20, 2026
Minotaur sees Zvyagintsev set his own deliciously ink-black stamp on Chabrol’s erotic thriller; indeed, for the majority of its runtime, Zvyagintsev deliberately flattens both the eroticism and the thrills – a carefully judged gambit that allows scenes of nudity and murder to land with greater force when they finally arrive.
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The Film Stage
May 21, 2026
In retrospect, there’s a kind of audacity to the film’s oscillating sprawl. Zvyagintsev is making space for a bourgeois love triangle against the backdrop of a war that’s blotted out everything else, and where domestic stories of such scale, in some fundamental sense, hardly matter. It is this cognitive dissonance that makes Minotaur such a fascinating oddity.
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