Kudos and appreciation to Max Seddon for highlighting the work of the Ukrainian film producer Alexander Rodnyansky (Interview, Life & Arts, February 15).
His trilogy of films, with acclaimed Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev (Elena, Leviathan and Loveless), are masterpieces which together unveil and presage the political and social rot developing in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
The miracle is that these films were made at all (and supported, in the case of Elena and Leviathan, by the Russian Ministry of Culture) — an absolute impossibility in today’s Russia.
It is worth noting that Rodnyansky’s remarkable book, also entitled Loveless and available as yet only in Russian, is published by Meduza. This organisation is an independent news agency (Russian/English) and publishing house manned by talented, articulate Russian journalists, all of whom have bravely continued their work in exile.
Lawrence Sherwin
London TW11, UK
