Films

Official Oscar© Selection—France
Grand Prix Winner, Cannes Film Festival 

The latest from Academy Award-nominated writer-director Andrey Zvyagintsev (Loveless, Leviathan), Minotaur is a twist-laden parable for our times, adapted from Claude Chabrol’s 1969 erotic thriller, The Unfaithful Wife. 

Russia, 2022. Amidst the comfortable trappings of affluence and domesticity, corporate executive Gleb (Dmitriy Mazurov) finds himself under siege on all fronts. At home, he is haunted by suspicions that his increasingly distant wife Galina (Iris Lebedeva) is unfaithful. At work, he contends with a demand from local authorities to draft a quota of employees for the war in Ukraine.

Desperate to keep his hands clean, Gleb struggles to reassert control even as the collapse of his carefully ordered life seems fated to accelerate toward violence. A pressure cooker in cinematic form, Minotaur uncovers and indicts the heart of societal darkness with searing clarity.

Introduction by Anne Thompson (IndieWire).

“Teeming with rage, despair, elastic metaphor and darkest gallows humor.”
-Guy Lodge, Variety

“The icily exacting power of [Zvyagintsev’s] filmmaking is undeniable — and it sucks you in like a vortex.”
-Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire