A few years ago, it would have been quite easy to say Mickey Rourke’s career had suffered in darkness. His heyday was in the 1980s, when his churlish grin and avid stare melted hearts...

One of the most powerful things a filmmaker can do is to elicit beauty from the most unexpected of places, thereby challenging our preconceived notions and reframing the question of beauty itself. Well, Russian film...