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The Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium, the governing body of the Italian cheese, has reportedly signed with United Talent Agency in order to pursue product placement opportunities in film and TV projects.

Shot on a handheld digital camera, the film applies an anarchic home-movie aesthetic to a superbly performed, discomfitingly comic drama of darkness within a family.

The film acknowledges the bones of Johnson’s story—a very thin narrative in terms of things actually happening, though the things that happen are enormous.

Sixteen months of a cataclysmic offensive to try to occupy the town of Pokrovsk, which I also know and where I also filmed.

That wouldn’t cure the malaise the film diagnoses.