Critics Praise Documentary Sequel Following Exiled Russian Journalists
Julia Loktev’s “My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile” continues her gripping chronicle of reporters fleeing Russia after the Ukraine invasion, earning acclaim from both Hollywood Reporter and Variety.
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‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile’ Review: An Enormous, Riveting Documentary Sequel Following Reporters on the Run
Following her mammoth five-hour odyssey “My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow,” Julia Loktev’s sequel remains just as riveting, if not more so, in its continued depiction of journalists escaping the Russian government. Its predecessor’s endpoint (one Loktev could not have foreseen when she began shooting on her iPhone X) was the […]
By Siddhant Adlakha
Read full article →‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile’ Review: War Rages On, as Does the Journalistic Resistance, in an Essential Chronicle of Reporters Under Fire
Director Julia Loktev follows a handful of independent Russian journalists forced to flee their country after the invasion of Ukraine in this follow-up to last year's 'Part I.'
By Jordan Mintzer
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