Director Andrey Zvyagintsev poses after winning the Cannes Jury Prize Award for "Loveless". (c) Xu Jinquan/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images. All rights reserved.
Russian film director Andrei Zvyagintsev recently won the Cannes festival jury prize for his film Loveless. In his (dis-) honour, we translate this essay from our partners at Colta.ru.
It’s a paradox of our globalised world: on the one hand, the tropes of “Russian hackers”, “the Russian spy Donald Trump” and “Russian agent Marine Le Pen” are all part of their own countries’ internal debate and aren’t connected to Russia’s real influence. On the other, the consequences of our pranks are delayed, and not all of them are negative.
