Cincinnati World Cinema continues its Global Film Series with two screenings of Zift at The Carnegie in Covington. Javor Gardev’s stylish noir is an entertaining if overripe entry into genre — shot in luminous black and white, it features enough flourishes to fill two movies: copious nudity, both male and female; hardboiled voice-over narration; a mysterious missing diamond; a sage cellmate; a sexy femme fatale; violence; elaborate set design; multiple narrative flashbacks; pretentious dialogue quoting the likes of Voltaire; and much more.
Read the full review here.
Zift screens at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 1 and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3. Go to cincyworldcinema.com for more information.
This article appears in Oct 28 – Nov 3, 2009.
