Winter
on Fire captures the aggressively suppressed student protests that took place
in Kiev in late 2013, early 2014 that
backed the ouster of Putin backed President Viktor Yanukovych in favor of
Ukraine's entry into the EU. Resembling the documentary The Square, which similarly
captured the Egyption Revolution, Evgeny Afineevsky's film bears the same
assets, which include intimate, even remarkable first person filming capturing
often shocking brutality and drawbacks such as a lack of narrative structure
and redundancy.
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out of ****
