The Hollywood Reporter

Larisa Sadilova’s probing drama highlights small-town Russian culture through an opaque lens

VIMOOZ: After having screened at numerous international film festivals including Palm Springs, Montreal, Haifa, Moscow, Busan, and LA Jewish Film Festival, the Russian film CHAGALL-MALEVICH, directed by Alexander Mitta finally sets a U.S. theatrical release date. CHAGALL-MALEVICH will open at Cinema Village in New York on June 12 and at Laemmle Music Hall in Beverly Hills and at Town Center 5 in Encino, CA on June 19.

The author of six feature films, Russian director Larisa Sadilova hadn’t shot a film in recent years. In Once in Trubchevsk, set in the countryside of contemporary Russia, she casts a tender eye upon her characters

“Chagall-Malevich functions well enough on a dramatic level as a play-by-play explication of a defining period in Chagall’s life: his founding of a revolutionary arts college in Vitebsk against the death rattle of World War I” — a review by Carson Lund in Slant Magazine.