Bitter Harvest's reviews
Media reviews
Los Angeles Times
Shooting in Ukraine, the filmmaker achieves a physical authenticity and offers intriguing glimpses of local customs, but the story that he and his ill-served cast enact is an unwieldy excess of incident and cliché.
New York Times
?Bitter Harvest? feels awkward and parochial. Unlike Natalka, the movie has no backbone, flopping from scene to scene without any sense of scope or spectacle.
Variety
While Bitter Harvest will undoubtedly serve to raise awareness, there can be no doubt that the events deserve a more compelling and responsible treatment than this.
The Guardian
The dialogue is at times embarrassingly bad, and the death of practically every principal supporting character is marked by a shot of some prop being splattered with metonymic blood.
The Washington Post
Mendeluk never misses an opportunity to insult the intelligence of the audience, whether it?s by an early sequence of two horses ? presumably representing Russia and Ukraine ? rearing up in a slow-motion confrontation, or a close-up shot of a Ukrainian resistance fighter?s eyeglasses, lying smashed on the pavement.
The Hollywood Reporter
This is the sort of bad film that can only come about as the result of misguided ambitions.