Winter's bones

Нелюбовь (Loveless)

Quad

Boris and Zhenya are not the world's worst parents, but they're in the middle of a divorce, and they're trying to sell their apartment, and each is involved with a new lover (Boris's girlfriend is very pregnant), and then there are their jobs, and, well, they just don't have much attention or warmth to spare to Alexey, who was an accident that befell two teenagers to begin with, and whom they sort of blame for forcing them into a terrible marriage.

So not the world's worst parents, but self-involved enough to be in, say, the 70th percentile. Moreover, Alexey is the focus of an unusual custody battle: each parent wants the other to take him.

So the miserable boy runs away. And then things really get miserable. A brutally excellent film from Andrey Zvyagintsev, writer and director of the brutally excellent Leviathan.