Eugene Kotlyarenko

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Eugene Kotlyarenko is a Ukrainian-American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. His feature writing-directing work includes 0s & 1s (2011), A Wonderful Cloud (2015), Wobble Palace (2018), We Are (2020) and Spree (2020).

Film career

In 2020, Kotlyarenko wrote and directed Spree starring Joe Keery, Sasheer Zamata, David Arquette, Kyle Mooney, Lala Kent and Mischa Barton. The film was executive-produced by Drake. [1]

Spree premiered on January 24, 2020, at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival as part of the NEXT category, and was released theatrically and via video on demand in the United States on August 14, 2020, by RLJE Films.

In 2018, Kotlyarenko wrote and directed Wobble Palace starring Dasha Nekrasova and himself. The film premiered at the SXSW Film Festival to positive reviews with New York Times , critic Teo Bugbee praising the film as "[...] a sendup of broke-artist types that shimmers with abashed affection". [2] A review on The Playlist by Lena Wilson echoed this sentiment, writing that it: "[...] perfectly reproduces a subculture, both visually and narratively". [3]

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References

  1. ‘Spree’ Review: Joe Keery Leads This ‘American Psycho’ for the Digital Age | Sundance 2020 Collider. 26 January 2020
  2. Bugbee, Teo (4 October 2018). "Review: In 'Wobble Palace,' a Relationship Hangs by a Stringy Toupee (Published 2018)". The New York Times.
  3. Wilson, Lena (19 March 2018). "'Wobble Palace' Is A Gorgeous, Narcissistic Nightmare [SXSW Review]". The Playlist. Retrieved 6 May 2021.