Minotaur: Relentless and Chilling (review)

Andreï Zviaguintsev revisits La Femme infidèle by Chabrol to tell the story of the excesses, violence and amorality at all levels of Putin’s Russia. Relentless and chilling. A success crowned with a Grand Prix in Cannes.

A big regular at Cannes trophies (Interpretation Prize for his actor in Banishmentin 2007, Un Certain Regard Prize in 2011 for Elena, 2017 Jury Prize for For lack of love, 2014 Screenplay Prize for Leviathan), Andrei Zvyagintsev did not fail in its reputation last May. Minotaur even earned him his greatest reward, the Grand Prix. Logical for what constituted one of the summits of the 2026 competition. Exiled in France, the 62-year-old Russian filmmaker revisits it The Unfaithful Wife by Chabrol in the Russia of 2022. Where Gleb, a successful business leader decides to settle manu militari the adulterous affair that his wife and mother of his son is experiencing with a photographer.