‘Memory’ Review: Crimean-Born Director Vladlena Sandu Mourns Innocence Lost In A Harrowing War-Time Memoir – Venice Film Festival

If, as they say, the first casualty of war is innocence, then this harrowing memoir from director Vladlena Sandu is the proof. Born in Crimea in the early ’80s and sent to live with her grandparents in Grozny (then Chechnya), Sandu has had some pretty bad luck in her time, to put it mildly. This […]