"People Tend to Push the Film Away": Cristi Puiu on Malmkrog

There was nothing at Berlinale quite like Malmkrog. I say this first with the authority of having seen it almost immediately after my train arrived on the first of what would be ten disappointing days at the 70th edition of the festival. Relative to Malmkrog, the other big directors at the festival mostly played it safe. And having this behemoth--an adaptation of a 1900 Russian text by Vladimir Soloviev entitled War and Christianity: Three Conversations--as the inaugural film of the new Encounte...