Minotaur
Film details
| Film Title | Minotaur |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 135mins |
| Year | 2026 |
| Country | France, Latvia, Germany, United States of America, Switzerland |
| Director | Andrey Zvyagintsev |
| Actors | Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva, Varvara Shmykova, Juris Žagars, Anatoliy Belyy, Vladimir Friedman, Anastasia Mischenko, Yurii Zavalnyuk, Rudgy Pajany, Anton Lytvynov, Yan Vizinberg, Stasya Tolstaya, Boris Shchedrin, Artur Smolyaninov, Mihails Samodahovs |
| AKA | Minotaure |
| Showings |
When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures, an increasingly unstable world, and the discovery of his wife’s affair, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.
Zvyagintsev has made another remarkable film full of moral clarity that will get up the nose of all the right people. He may just be the greatest Russian filmmaker since Tarkovsky, and he’s definitely the ballsiest.
★★★★
The performances from Mazurov and Lebedeva are outstanding, and Zvyagintsev’s direction is superb with his cold daylit compositions and scenes in grim streets and housing estates. Everything here looks like a crime scene.
★★★★★
Minotaur isn’t the best movie of Zvyagintsev’s career, but the icily exacting power of his filmmaking is undeniable — and it sucks you in like a vortex. Rarely are you so glued to a tale you’ve heard so many times before.
★★★★★
The film functions as both a classical, supremely well-made domestic thriller, and as a bristling state-of-the-nation takedown, identifying Putin’s principles of entitlement, intimidation and denial in places both obvious and more quietly coded.
★★★★★
Inverness Film Festival 2026
Cromarty Cinema are proud to be part of the Inverness Film Festival. We are showing three films from the festival over the opening weekend. We look forward to seeing you there!
