This Russian Documentary Is Just Nuts
Comprised solely of real dashboard camera footage from Russian cars (much of it from 2014, if intermittent on-screen time stamps are to be believed), Dmitrii Kalashnikov’s documentary “The Road Movie” is a uniquely amusing—and harrowing—snapshot of the lunacy that awaits people on modern thoroughfares and back streets. Think Cops by way of Faces of Death by way of your favorite caught-on-film YouTube channel. It’s crowdsourced verité cinema, assembled by Kalashnikov with droll humor and an incisive sense of mankind’s compassion and cruelty, and life’s unbelievable precariousness.
