Trydno byt bogom 2013

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: It is grotesque and deranged and Hieronymus Bosch-like, and damn if it isn't a bona fide vision-but of what, exactly? Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Nasty, brutish, and long. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: The late director Aleksei Guerman's last film is a grandly arbitrary carnival of neo-medieval depravity. It's also a mudpunk allegory of Russian barbarism and backwardness. Read more

Nicolas Rapold, New York Times: The roiling setting alone enforces a medieval mind-set that feels genuine: brutal yet often jovially rambunctious and crude, pre-psychological in its sense of the cheapness of life and yet rich with local custom and detail. Read more

Trevor Johnston, Time Out: If you're a fan of 'Andrei Rublev' and 'Stalker', don't miss this monumental film. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: An epic lurch through the circle of the Inferno Dante left out, where we are buried chin-deep in wet manure. Read more