Vadim Baranov was an artist among politicians, and a politician for artists during the tumultuous times of the late 20th century and early 21st century Russia. The son of a high ranking Soviet academic (who burned out and faded away with the Soviet Union) and a former avant garde theatre director who came of age during the collapse of the USSR, and the rise of the gangster-oligarchs at a time where everything in Moscow was both collapsing and being rebuilt at the same time. Played by Paul Dano, an actor who frequently takes parts in which his characters have the crap kicked out of him, his slick (but with a measured understatement) demeanour here is a different kind of flavour, but a welcome one. He...
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