Something Better to Come

Name: Something Better to Come
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Released: May 22, 2015
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 74

2015

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International Film Circuit | Release Date: May 22, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: 11-year-old Yula lives in one of the most desolate places on Earth: the Svalka, the biggest junkyard in Europe, 20 km outside the center of Moscow. Surrounded by barbed wire and guards, the area is closely monitored to keep intruders out. But in the junkyard lives a group of people in a small, lawless society. These people make up Yula’s11-year-old Yula lives in one of the most desolate places on Earth: the Svalka, the biggest junkyard in Europe, 20 km outside the center of Moscow. Surrounded by barbed wire and guards, the area is closely monitored to keep intruders out. But in the junkyard lives a group of people in a small, lawless society. These people make up Yula’s closest family; here she lives her life, and from here her future springs.… Expand

Director: Hanna Polak

Genre(s): Biography, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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Sheri Linden

Jun 4, 2015

Beyond her tenacious and intimate reporting, director and cinematographer Polak has made a work of powerful images — heart-rending, elegiac, charged with hope. Read full review

Pete Vonder Haar

May 19, 2015

Perhaps even more disturbing than the Dickensian in extremis ordeal of Svalka life — including her rational yet heartbreaking decision to give up her baby rather than raise it in the dump — is Yula's straightforward acceptance of her situation. Read full review

Neil Young

May 21, 2015

A bit of community spirit and camaraderie, it seems, can go a very long way, and sequences of spectacularly dystopian-apocalyptic, third-world bleakness are leavened by moments of incongruous beauty, even grace. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

May 21, 2015

Approach Something Better to Come with the same patience that the filmmaker exhibited in shooting it and you’ll be rewarded. That is, if your definition of “rewarded” includes being dismayed by the bleakness that exists on the edges of prosperity. Read full review

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