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...EAST-WEST After World War II, a Russian-born doctor and his French wife accept an invitation to help rebuild the U.S.S.R.--and enter into decades of police-state agony. Director Regis Wargnier's film is a great, gray epic of despair and survival...
...march formed a mile-long line of demonstrators two abreast in another day of balmy heat down the center of Broad Street, the largest East-West thoroughfare in the city...
...Stalinist paranoia. This complex, heartbreaking film recounts the brutal struggle of one couple to survive. Oleg Menchikov plays a doctor, valuable to the state, who gets along by pretending to go along. Sandrine Bonnaire is his French-born wife, on whom the state visits its worst depredations. But East-West is more than their story; it is a great, gray epic of a society wasted and terrorized, its idealism sadistically traduced...
...With little in the way of character development, East-West ultimately relies on plot to sustain the viewer's interest. Rather than engaging us, East-West compels us to ask: Will Sasha make the team? Will Marie escape? There is little ambiguity and no humor to overcome the predictable and increasingly tiresome turns of plot...
...EAST-WEST...