IT\u2019S A WISE CHILD\u2026<\/span>: Saturday night I watched The Return<\/span> (\u0412\u043e\u0437\u0432\u0440\u0430\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435), a recent Russian flick in which two boys go on a camping trip with their recently-returned, long-estranged father and his dark secrets. It\u2019s a small movie which punches far above its weight class due to the very true-to-life performances of the two boys, whose relationship undergoes multiple shifts in power dynamics over the course of the movie, and to the color-drenched cinematography. Russia looks just gorgeous here, alive and young and scary. The movie is shot in a way I realized I associate with contemporary horror movies: Everything is bleached or drenched, lots of sickly yellows and drained grays and deep, plush blues. The textures are so finely-notched that you can feel them under your fingertips.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IT\u2019S A WISE CHILD\u2026: Saturday night I watched The Return (\u0412\u043e\u0437\u0432\u0440\u0430\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435), a recent Russian flick in which two boys go on a camping trip with their recently-returned, long-estranged father and his dark secrets. It\u2019s a small movie which punches far above its weight class due to the very true-to-life performances of the two boys, whose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n