May 26, 2020
Review: "Siberia And Him" is an Excellent, Heart-wrenching LGBT Drama
Roger Walker-Dack READ TIME: 1 MIN.
There cannot possibly be a more desolate place to live on Earth than in the vast plains of Siberia, where the few residents miserably eke out a living and pray there is no return�to war.� When, in "Siberia and Him," Sasha's grandmother fails to answer her phone for days, the family sends him off on the long journey that will take days, and which he will need to undertake on foot and horseback when the roads run out.
His brother-in-law Dima, a local policeman, is sent with him, which turns out not to be the wisest of ideas, as the two men have been having a secret affair for some time. Throwing them together like this is tantamount to creating a very volatile situation.
It's fairly obvious that in this ultra-traditional backwater the two�men have very little or no chance of making any sort of relationship work, but that still doesn't prepare you for the shocking ending that writer/director Viatcheslav Kopturevskiy springs in this excellent, heart-wrenching drama.
Available on DVD from TLA on 5/26/20
