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    Sergei Loznitsa

    Mar 25, 2020 3 minutes
    BY ATOM EGOYAN

    I first encountered Sergei Loznitsa’s work at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. Though I was busy watching student films and shorts as president of the Cinefondation jury, I found some time to steal away and watch some other work in the Official Selection. Loznitsa’s feature My Joy was in Competition.

    Watching this film changed something about what my sense of cinema could be. It presented itself as a realist film about a trucker named Georgy, but something

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