This patience, which is complemented by a gritty determination to see
real legal and economic reforms take hold, is all the more striking in that Ukraine must confront daily the cultural and social deterioration
created by the sad reality of Homo Sovieticus: men and women who grew up under a brutal political system that was built on falsehoods, that maintained itself through
terror, and that taught everyone that trust in another human being can be very costly.
This astonishing debut from screenwriter and director Robert Eggers charts a Puritan family's descent into madness, meting out
terror by
creating a
real sense of atmosphere and dread.