Andrey Zvyagintsev's third film, I've also seen his first and latest; The Return (2003) and Leviathan (2014). From the three I've seen, I have to hand it to his sticking with Mikhail Krichman's cinematography.

From the opening shot of Elena. Every now and then I get a damaged dvd that starts freezing, and I had to glance down at the counter to see that the scene was playing normally - until I sensed the light getting brighter, then some movement in the foreground, on a branch, to the...