After watching Import/Export, I realised there were three things I never want to do: I don't want to live in the Ukraine, I don't want to get old and, even though I'm glad I've seen it, I don't want ...

While Chinese actors Jackie Chan and Zhang Jingchu make their red carpet appearances at the premiere of Rush Hour 3 in the US, it looks unlikely that the film will receive the same treatment in their ...

Import Export, a supremely revelatory and breathtakingly fierce panorama of modern-day Europe by Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, could not have been released at a better time. In a week when hundreds ...

In this 2007 drama, Austrian despair monger Ulrich Seidl (Dog Days, Jesus, You Know) cuts between two tales of young adults sinking deeper into the tar pit of poverty. The “import” is a tenderhearted ...

Wretchedness commutes between the Ukraine and Austria in Ulrich Seidl’s miserable but masterful drama “Import Export.” Helmer’s trademark unrelenting gaze into despair will come as no surprise to ...