The Daunting Task of Artistic Obsession The Venice film festival has seen its share of ambitious projects, but none perhaps as sprawling and all consuming as Ilya Krzhanovsky's "Dau".
At its core, this is a biopic about Lev Landau, a Soviet scientist and Nobel laureate who worked across multiple decades.
However, the film quickly expands to become a complex exploration of sex, politics, and existential crisis.