Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends drops you into a group of stalwart independent Russian journalists in the last months before the invasion of Ukraine.
Photo: Julia Loktev/New York Film Festival
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow, Julia Loktev’s tremendous new five-and-a-half-hour documentary about independent journalists in Russia, is hardly a network sitcom. But in what feels like a nod to the NBC show with which it shares part of its title, each of the film’s five chapters ends with credits that identify the main players by their diminutive and full names. It’s a wry touch — Next time on My Undesirable Friends, a very special episode in which Anya considers emigrating to Germany with her family!…
