April

Dea Kulumbegashvili comes into her own with haunting abortion drama.

The film is always at its most compelling when Kulumbegashvili grounds a scene in the immediacy of Nina’s presence, even if she’s only peeking into a shot from the edge of the frame.

There isn’t a horror director alive who wouldn’t kill to create frames as tense, ominous, and viscerally captivating as those of Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili...

...eerily elusive, superbly acted and crafted.

...is as exquisite as it is excruciating: a film that will linger with you long afterward, but you’ll probably never want to watch it again. 

...is overall equal parts disturbing and enthralling, arresting and miserable; a gorgeous slow-burn pressure cooker that culminates in a quiet condemnation of the powers complicit in women’s suffering while offering no catharsis.