Inching forward on a rocky if deeply felt cinematic path that has rarely strayed far from reflections on himself and his mother, Azerbaijan filmmaker Hilal Baydarov opens up his vistas, somewhat, in the fiction feature In Between Dying (Sepelenmis Olumler Arasinda).
It’s beautiful to look at, but the story of a young man on the run who encounters death at every turn of the winding road doesn’t really make much sense even in metaphorical terms.
The Azerbaijan-Mexican coprod (filmmaker Carlos Reygadas is one of the producers) will have to fight to find space outside festivals, even after its bow in Venice competition.
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