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Cannes Review: Maksym Nakonechnyi’s ‘Butterfly Vision’

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Arguably the most timely film in Cannes this year, Butterfly Vision will also likely remain one of the least seen, in that it exists overwhelmingly as a marker of a very specific time and place rather than as anything many people might actually choose to watch.

Presented in the Un Certain Regard sidebar, this somber and sobering document about Ukraine appears to mix verité-style dramatized scenes with television and other visual material that is never less than tremendously grim.

How and by whom it might be shown in the territories where viewers would most appreciate it is unclear; depressing hardly begins to describe it.Young local filmmaker Maksym Nakonechnyi has been very resourceful in gathering footage that starkly and upsettingly reveals the trauma of recent times; the images are of ruin and disfunction as well as of life continuing in its own fashion.

The central figure is a young aerial reconnaissance officer named Lilia (Rita Burkovska) who has just spent several months in prison in Donbass.

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