One of the discoveries of last year’s Venice festival, this beguilingly goofy comedy contains a personal and very touching story about fathers and sons. When identical twin Ukrainian brothers of different temperaments hear that their long-absent father is sick in Luxembourg, they set out to see him one last time. Will the man they find be the bad-ass father they remember? Growing up shaped by the absence of their gangster papa, low-level drug dealer Kolya and cop Vasya (played as adults with hangdog panache by Ukrainian rappers Amil and Ramil Nasirov of the popular group Kurgan & Agregat) have very different memories and feelings about seeing the man again. But as it turns out, it’s a good time to hit the road for both of them. Kolya’s in trouble with the law and a very angry old lady, and Vasya is tired of his wife nagging him to do better. –Alissa Simon
Director Biography
Born in Uzhhorod, Ukraine in 1992, Antonio Lukic studied directing at the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University. He is the director of the short film “It Was Showering in Manchester” (2015), “Who Framed Kim Kuzin?” (2015) and the feature film My Thoughts are Silent (2019). Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2022) is his most recent film.