A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.
- Awards
- 8 wins & 12 nominations
Yekaterina Kulkina
- Eva
- (as Katya Kulkina)
- Director
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- TriviaThe film required a larger budget than it may seem because the filmmakers wanted "Izgnanie" to be "out of time and place" and did their best so the audience would not guess where and when the film took place. Even car plates and signboards were designed specially for the film. The props were bought in Germany, the "town" part of the film was shot in Belgium and northern France, and the "country" part was shot in Moldova.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Metropolis: Cannes 2007 - Special (2007)
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Composed by Arvo Pärt
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a terrible darkness here but the performances are as magical as the cinematography
Having recently watched and been most impressed with director, Andrey Zvyagintsev's first film The Return and having also liked his later films thought I would take a look at this, his second outing. It is a terrible tale but, oh so well told. From the opening shot of a solitary tree in a golden landscape to the very end this is wonderfully filmed with frame after frame a joy to behold. The story itself is another matter and the director's easy way with children means that even if the adults avoid saying very much, the children are less inhibited and provide a delightful backdrop. Although the innocence of the young children does contrast and further emphasise the horrors that the adults do, to each other, mostly mentally and off frame something pretty terrible too that we are not privy to. There is a terrible darkness here but the performances are as magical as the cinematography and the whole is a great pleasure to watch. The town and city sequences are, apparently, shot in France and Belgium whilst the unique countryside scenes are filmed in Moldova, which I discover is a small former soviet country between Ukraine and Romania. Brilliant film - the director talks of L'Aventura and this just could be considered a Russian Antonioni - even if it wasn't filmed there.
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- Feb 10, 2021
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- Release date
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- Also known as
- Вигнання
- Filming locations
- Charleroi, Wallonia, Belgium(city exteriors)
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $641,101
- Runtime2 hours 30 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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