A Gentle Creature's reviews
Media reviews
The Telegraph
Loznitsa?s construction of this world apart ? which is, of course, a grotesque allegory for Russia itself ? is as immersive as it is unnerving.
The Playlist
In systematic and cinematically dazzling fashion, Loznitsa?s nihilistic riff will drag you to a circle of hell that makes Dante?s ?Inferno? look like a love sonnet, and you?ll walk out of the film feeling woozy, defeated and utterly destroyed, in that order.
Variety
The film beguiles with its bravura but it?s a deliberately punishing journey
The Guardian
It is gripping and absorbing in its way, although perhaps too conscious of its own metaphorical properties and opinion.
The Hollywood Reporter
Creature is exceptional in its depiction of the Byzantine bureaucracy that encases gulags, and how the towns adjacent to Russian prisons tend to be seedy snake pits of crime and venality.
Screen Daily
A grim state-of-the-nation fable, a bitter mix of tragedy, farce and road movie soaked in the bleak sardonic spirit of Gogol and Dostoyevsky.