The directors of the present. Radicals and minimalists. Plakhov A.

Andrei Plakhov is one of the most authoritative journalists in the world of cinema, film critic and a film scoring for the best Russian and international media. Candidate of art history, taught film critics at VGIK. From 1977 to 1988 he worked as an editor of television department in the newspaper Pravda. From 1986 to 1990 - Chairman of the Conflict Commission on Creative Issues and Secretary of the Board of the USSR IC. He was more than once in the jury of international film festivals, and during the MMKF regularly performs with its own program of films. President of the International Federation of Films (Fipers).

Author of many books about the history and theory of cinema. “The directors of the present: radicals and minimalists”, who became the heroes of this book, according to the author, could also be called anti -globalists of cinema. Their films form the appearance of modern cinema, approaching it from an unexpected side. They see the world in a different perspective, through a small person highlighted by a close -up, through an expressive detail or a radical idea, a provocation that requires a special artistic optics for its implementation. Among the characters of this collection are Alexei Balabanov, Jim Jarmush, aki Kaurismaki, Francois Ozon, Lars von Trier and other masters, the most extraordinary directors today.