‘Butterfly Jam’ Overview: Barry Keoghan and Riley Keough Are Circassian Siblings in Kantemir Balagov’s Vibrant however Unruly Neighborhood Portrait

As earthly circles of hell go, modern-day Newark is in an altogether completely different, gentler class from post-WWII Leningrad. Nonetheless, 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.” Although […]