23 October 2011

Land of Oblivion (Michale Boganim, 2011)

6.5/10
Land of Oblivion follows two stories taking place on April 26th, 1986 - a woman and man getting married, and an engineer who works at the Chernobyl power plant. Of course, that's the date the reactor melts down. After the disaster, the movie picks up 10 years later - the wife, now a widow, is a tour guide in Pripyat, and the engineer's son is sneaking into the exclusion zone to try and locate his father. To be honest, the stories aren't interesting, but the filming in and around Pripyat is pretty great, for someone as interested in the Chernobyl disaster as I am.

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