Can I constantly complain that we don't have enough 🇪🇺 made #film about our 🇪🇺 lives and 🇪🇺 contemporary history and then watch #LeMageDuKremlin and yell: not like THAT! Yes, I can.

Whoever at Gaumont decided to shoot this IN ENGLISH so they can cast Jude Law as Putin should be hung by their ankles. I regret to inform you men are kind of silly and everyone involved has been made to look even sillier by the 4 years since Putin invaded Ukraine again.

https://youtu.be/B5iSUmP4I6E

#cinema #eurocinema

The Wizard of the Kremlin - Trailer

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The book works because Giuliano Da Empoli is a bright guy who thinks deeply about Europe and the darkness in men's souls, particularly middle-aged men who are consiglieres of men in power. Surkov himself is really not that interesting of a guy and, as the last four years have proven, Putin really is just a m... vertically-challenged, brain-rotten boomer obsessed with the US, the puppet show satirists were right. Baranov in the book is interesting because da Empoli projects a Dark Me onto him.