Loveless's reviews
Media reviews
The Telegraph
"It?s sequences like this that Zvyagintsev and his usual director of photography Mikhail Krichman seem to live for: a slow pan across a mist-bathed valley as a search party advances downhill [...] has the clinical grandeur of science-fiction."
The Playlist
"'Loveless', perhaps his most brilliant, but also most profoundly pessimistic film to date that, [...]. It's possible that the horror that is a child who isn't crying for attention, but in shame and pain, alone, has never been more powerfully depicted. This is an image -one of many- that lodges like a splinter of ice in your spine"
The Guardian
"Andrei Zvyagintsev's Loveless is a stark, mysterious and terrifying story of spiritual catastrophe: a drama with the ostensible form of a procedural crime thriller. It has a hypnotic intensity and unbearable ambiguity which is maintained until the very end."
The Hollywood Reporter
"Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev once again demonstrates his remarkable gift for creating perfectly formed dramatic microcosms that illustrate the bred-in-the-bone pathologies of Russian society."
Indiewire
"Once again, Zyvagintsev does an effective job at diagnosing a dysfunctional family, and this masterful study of desperation doesn't need to say anything new in order to make the tragedy count for something."
Variety
" Loveless' has been made in a forceful and deliberate socialist-realist Hitchcockian style that recalls the most celebrated films of the Romanian new wave (?4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days'; 'The Death of Mr. Lazarescu')."
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote