My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile

Always a major pleasure speaking with Julia Loktev about her My Undesirable Friends project, which concludes with a film that moved me like few others this year or in any recent memory. No, those are different kinds of scary, and they’re kind of two different observations…

Nick Newman

during the q&a julia loktev made it sound like she's STILL filming her undesirable friends so idk maybe eleven hours isn't the end of this project. part one is an exercise in dramatic irony, and part two is limbo, an exploration of what it means to be stateless, struggling…

nora

From Venice 2026 Following her mammoth five-hour odyssey “My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow,” Julia Loktev’s sequel remains just as riveting, if not more so, in its continued depiction of journalists escaping the Russian government. Its predecessor’s…

SiddhantAdlakha

New York Premiere I imagine when Part 3 releases, it will be undeniable that this series on Putin’s efforts to stop these journalists is the filmmaking acheviment of the decade.  Pretty much every scene in Chapter 4 and 5 had my mouth on the ground.

KF

https://spectrumculture.com/2026/10/13/my-undesirable-friends-part-ii-exile-review/

erik reeds

Is it crazy to say after 11+ hours that all I want is a part 3?

Martin Greenberg

Tickets and Showtimes DIRECTED BY JULIA LOKTEV EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY MERYL STREEP AND LAURA POITRAS The film will be shown in two sections: Chapters 1-3 (192 min.) Chapters 4-5 (164 min.) Each section is a separate admission. When Russia shuts down all independent media,…

Film Forum

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Amoteus

There is something therapeutic about sitting in a cinema on a Wednesday during the LFF, watching a chronicle of the darkest period of your life.  Was pleasantly surprised when people started enthusiastically asking Julia when she was going to make a third part. And she…

Anastasiia