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    Satan’s Limbo

    Sep 12, 2022 7 minutes

    Film festival politics being what they are, many were surprised when Alexander Sokurov’s new feature, Fairytale, was announced as premiering in competition at Locarno. Sokurov, the grand old master of Russian cinema, has had numerous films debut in competition at Berlin, Cannes, and Venice. In 2011, he even took the Golden Lion for Faust, easily one of his most grotesque and unwatchable films. Point being, if Sokurov was screening in Locarno (which, incidentally, was the first Western festival to premiere his work, with The Lonely Voice of Man [1987]), chances are good that the other festivals took a pass on his latest.

    This, in turn, raised more direct questions about the relationship between film festivals and “politics” in the more general sense. In , Sokurov claimed that Cannes invited and then uninvited with little advance notice.“It seems to me that Cannes was afraid of ,” he claims. “A few hours before the screening, the Cannes directorate cancelled the session. Did this situation surprise me? Well, no. My previous work, [2015], has the same fate in Cannes…It’s a strange place. At least now I know for sure

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