Fresh
If you're still getting up to speed on how these Russian balaclava-clad feminists became an international cause celebre, filmmakers Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin offer an entertaining primer ...
Stephanie MacLellan, Toronto Star
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
2013 · 1h 30m · Not Rated
Documentary, Music
Directed by
Mike Lerner
,
Maxim Pozdorovkin
Overview
In the winter of 2011, after a controversial election, Vladimir Putin was reinstalled as president of Russia. In response, hundreds of thousands of citizens rose up all over the country to challenge the legitimacy of Putin’s rule. Among them were a group of young, radical-feminist punk rockers, better known as Pussy Riot. Wearing colored balaclavas, tights, and summer dresses, they entered Moscow’s most venerated cathedral and dared to sing “Mother Mary, Banish Putin!” Now they have become victims of a “show” trial.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
[It's] captivating and profoundly dismaying. If nothing else, you'll run crying with relief into the arms of the U.S. Constitution.
Hank Stuever, Washington Post
Rotten
This doc is an answer only to the band's prayers for never-ending publicity.
Linda Stasi, New York Post
Fresh
The filmmakers... add a crucial humanizing element, by focusing on the women's conflicted but supportive parents
Mike Hale, New York Times
Fresh
The women of Pussy Riot have an idea of what the new Russia should sound like; Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer shows just how hard it is to make that new world audible.
Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice
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