Help Gone Mad

"Let's pretend you don't know you're watching a Boris Khlebnikov picture. Ten minutes in, those wildly gesticulating figures, staring perplexedly into space halfway between hilarity and despair, will definitely start looking familiar. Khlebnikov's signature visual style, complemented by dialogue but not dependent on it, could well be considered a natural (and extremely Russian) evolution of Buster Keaton's early Hollywood antics. Khlebnikov's third feature and second solo effort (his directorial debut, Roads to Koktebel, was made with Alexei Popogrebsky) is a deliberately paced urban saga following a modern-day Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Sergey Dreiden stars as a deluded, histrionic old man pursuing his whimsical follies in a...