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It all has a ghostly feel, like eerie murmurs during a sance: the static of history heard on a short-wave radio.Full Review
The surreal images lack narration and talking heads, which is no problem. In fact, the device makes the shocking footage more compelling.Full Review
Loznitsa doesn't adorn the eerie footage with talking heads and factoid title cards. What narrative there is, along with a sense of incrementally mounting horror, emerges unbidden from the images.Full Review
Told without voiceover, explanatory subtitles or any other contextualizing material, Russian docu Blockade looks unlikely to show up on the History Channel as it stands now. Nevertheless, this absorbing account of the 900-day siege of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) during WWII, told entirely through re-edited archive footage with freshly made sound, reps poignant viewing as it focuses on the daily lives of the city's inhabitants.Full Review
The film makes you squirm as well as empathize, but it does need narration.Full Review
