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Elsa Keslassy
International Correspondent
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Courtesy of MK2 Films France’s Oscar submission race for 2027 is shaping up around one particularly thorny question: What happens to a major film by an exiled filmmaker when no other country is realistically positioned to claim it?
That is the dilemma surrounding Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur,” a scathing portrait of corruption in Putin’s Russia that won the Grand Prize at Cannes and is emerging as one of the strongest contenders to represent France in the international feature Oscar race.
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