Critics Review New Film 'Butterfly Jam' Starring Keoghan and Keough
Film critics have released reviews for 'Butterfly Jam,' a new drama featuring Barry Keoghan and Riley Keough. The movie explores a Circassian community in New Jersey.
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‘Butterfly Jam’ Review: Barry Keoghan and Riley Keough Are Circassian Siblings in Kantemir Balagov’s Vibrant but Unruly Community Portrait
As earthly circles of hell go, modern-day Newark is in an altogether different, gentler category from post-WWII Leningrad. Still, in Kantemir Balagov’s long-awaited third feature “Butterfly Jam,” industrial New Jersey proves as vivid and specific a backdrop for wilting, marginalized lives as the ruined Russian city did in the filmmaker’s 2019 masterpiece “Beanpole.” Though it’s […]
By Guy Lodge
Read full article →‘Butterfly Jam’ Review: Barry Keoghan and Riley Keough Blend Into a New Jersey Circassian Community in Absorbing but Meandering Drama
Harry Melling and newcomers Tahla Akdogan and Jaliyah Richards also star in this third feature from Russian director Kantemir Balagov, who had an international breakthrough in 2019 with ‘Beanpole.’
By David Rooney
Read full article →‘Butterfly Jam’ Review: Barry Keoghan Plays An Upbeat But Reckless Dad In Kantemir Balagov’s Circassian Diaspora Drama
The machine has yet to be invented that can tie up all the loose ends in Kantemir Balagov’s third feature, a puzzling family drama set in the small, tight-knit community of Circassians in New Jersey. Such is the intimate nature of Balagov’s film that there’s no real indication of how large this diaspora is, or […]
By Damon Wise
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