Student

Name: Student
Genre: Drama
Released: May 31, 2013
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 63

2013

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Global Film Initiative | Release Date: May 31, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: A contemporary take on Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment set in the former Kazakhstan capital of Almaty.

Director: Darezhan Omirbayev

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Nicolas Rapold

May 30, 2013

It’s the no-nonsense filmmaking, seamlessly integrating even dreams and visions, that keeps us fixed on the bold line of the student’s trajectory, all the way through to a transcendent ending. Read full review

Aaron Cutler

May 28, 2013

Psychological violence is constantly present and reflected in the film's physical violence, which is typically suggested rather than seen. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

May 28, 2013

There’s much to admire in the film’s elegantly classical tempo and the way Omirbayev achieves so much with so little. Read full review

David Fear

May 28, 2013

A sense of existential dread that would make the Russkie novelist beam is channeled beautifully, but for a filmmaker lauded for his minimalist aesthetic, Omirbayev sure loves broad-stroke symbolism and sloganeering. Read full review

Caroline McKenzie

May 28, 2013

Kazakh cinema's stalwart auteur Darzhan Omirbaev adapts Crime and Punishment to modern-day Almaty, but with little to say beyond the obvious. Read full review

Stephen Dalton

May 28, 2013

Omirbaev fails to invest either the murder plot or its political subtext with much suspense or conviction. Read full review

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