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Film review Tsar quality is not enough to save this flat political satire
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|September 01, 2025
The Wizard of the KremlinVenice film festival ★★★★☆
iuliano da Empoli's smash-hit satirical novel The Wizard of the Kremlin - about a Putin spin doctor called Vadim Baranov, based on the shadowy real-life Russian politician Vladislav Surkov - has now been converted into an exasperatingly laborious, literal-minded movie, burdened with endless dull voiceover.
It has been written for the screen by its estimable director Olivier Assayas, working with the formidable author and reportage journalist Emmanuel Carrère; Carrère in fact has a cameo here, as a supercilious French figure at a raucous Moscow student party in the early 90s, patronisingly informing the young people that it was the communism they've just rejected that really believed in the arts.
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