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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/03/anora-sean-baker-oscars-best-picture

At a time when Russian bombs continue to fall on Ukraine, a story steeped in Russian themes and set in a pre-pandemic world – untouched by the invasion – feels, to its critics, unwelcome, like a retreat into a reality where the war doesn’t exist.

There’s a lot about this film that unsettles me … It’s the third year of full-scale war … And here … not a single word about the war. The feeling of discomfort never quite leaves,” wrote the Ukrainian film producer Alexander Rodnyansky in a post on Instagram.

So only films set post-invastion are now acceptable? A retreat into a reality where the war doesn't exist? Every film, regardless of subject has to mention the war?

You know why there wasn't a single mention of the war? Because it had absolutely fuck all to do with the war.

This is completely demented; it's like some sort of Stalinist era criticism of a play about ancient Greece that didn't have sufficient praise for recent Soviet agricultural policy.

Anyone Russian being given any award for anything is "cultural normalisation".

They really can fuck off with this nonsense.