Criminals and love in Ukraine

 BEIRUT: One of the great obstacles facing filmmakers wanting to crack the lucrative U.S. market is language. It’s trade magazine doctrine that multiplexes there shy away from foreign films because it’s assumed their audiences won’t pay to sit through subtitled movies. By this standard “The Tribe,” the debut feature of Ukrainian writer-director-producer Miroslav Slaboshpitsky, ought to enjoy the advantage of a subtitle-free foreign film. Unfortunately for Slaboshpitsky’s distributors, the work is far more challenging than many non-American films released this year......Read more