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‘Timestamp’ Review: Kateryna Gornostai’s Extraordinary Doc Takes Us Inside The War On Ukraine And Its Children – Berlin Film Festival
‘Timestamp’ review: Kateryna Gornostai’s extraordinary doc takes us inside the war on Ukraine and its children – Berlin Film Festival
'Timestamp'Oleksandr Roshchyn There can’t possibly be a more timely film in the Berlinale lineup this year than Kateryna Gornostai ’s Timestamp, an extraordinary deep-cover documentary about the effects of war in everyday Ukraine that, despite the harsh front-page relevance of its subject matter, has a beautiful old-fashioned formalism in its editing and composition. Though it deals with the aftermath of airstrikes — “This is our kitchen,” a woman tells us from the blackened wreckage of a civilian housing block — Timestamp is more concerned with the way war destroys innocence as surely as it tears apart bricks and mortar. By this time, we feel as welcome in their world as the director clearly does, and the footage she gets is as close as you could possibly find to a NatGeo study of human wildlife (Nicolas Philibert’s intimate 2002 film Etre et Avoir must surely have been an influence here).
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