At their best, horror movies reflect destabilisation caused by cracks in the social fabric. The crack indicated in the documentarist Andrey Paounov’s fiction debut January is the widening abyss that, one character fears, will swallow Bulgaria village by village, town by town; the entire world, he says, will eventually succumb to this state of waking death. Maybe it already has?
30/09/2021 - Known for his hybrid magical-realism documentaries, Bulgarian helmer Andrey Paounov has received the Special Jury Prize at the Golden Rose Film Festival for his first fiction film
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