Dau: Venice's Immersive Mega-Project Struggles to Cohere as a Film
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Venice premiere of DAU, Khrzhanovsky’s sprawling immersive project about Lev Landau, is visually striking and ambitiously staged but remains uneven and hard to engage as a conventional film, earning a Grade C and currently seeking US distribution.
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