Dear Comrades! Photo: Courtesy Roxie Theater
Retirement isn’t for everyone — least of all, it seems, for film directors. Roman Polanski wrapped 2019’s
J’Accuse when he was 86 (whether, as suggested, it’s his last feature remains to be seen); Jean-Luc Godard directed his most recent film at 88, and Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira put them both to shame by working into his 104th year.
In comparison, Andrei Konchalovsky is a sprightly youngster. His brief and only marginally successful Hollywood career now well in the rear-view mirror (remember
Tango & Cash and
Dorogie tovarishchi (
Shot in academy ratio and in black and white,