Loveless

Zhenya and Boris are going through a painful divorce. The only thing keeping them together is the sale of their apartment - otherwise they have both moved on with their new lives. Zhenya has found an older wealthy man, Boris is expecting a child with a colleague from work. Their twelve-year-old son Alyosha is more of a burden: neither parent wants him, as if he reminds them of their own failure.

Everything changes when Alyosha disappears. The sudden sense of emptiness drives both parents to search not only for their own son, but also for the roots of their own emotional coldness.

Andrei Zvyagintsev brings a drama about people in love with their own reflection in mobile phones, who otherwise live in a world of alienation and misunderstanding. The Russian filmmaker turns again to the Russian upper-middle class, which was at the center of his earlier film Elena - but Loveless is a far more penetrating and suggestive portrait of life in self-deception.