Yellow Cat
Cult Comedies: six films on the absurdity of modern life
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1h 28m
Directed by Adilkhan Yerzhanov • 2020 • Kazakhstan
A movie-obsessed ex-con and his sultry female companion are lovers on the lam in Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s droll and touching crime caper. Kermek (Azamat Nigmanov) returns from the joint to his native Kazakh village with a dream: to build a cinema on the steppe. When he is shortchanged by local gangster Zhambas (Sanjar Madi), he and Eva (Kamila Nugmanova) head for the hills with nothing but a gun, a stolen box of mob money, and a hazy recollection of the films of Jean-Pierre Melville. With his trademark deadpan humour and humanist heart, Yerzhanov reimagines Bonnie and Clyde as an odyssey to the heart of Central Asian absurdity, paying homage to his beloved Hollywood and French New Wave along the way.
YELLOW CAT • САРЫ МЫСЫҚ
Directed by Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Written by Adilkhan Yerzhanov and Inna Smailova
Cinematography by Yerkinbek Ptyraliyev
Music by Ivan Sintsov and Alim Zairov
Starring: Azamat Nigmanov, Kamila Nugmanova, Sanjar Madi
In Kazakh and Russian with English subtitles
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