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Why Man with a Movie Camera is the one film you should watch this week- video review

Dziga Vertov's 1929 art film/documentary spins the ordinary workings of city life in Moscow, Kiev and Odessa into a hallucinatory montage of the Soviet Union in frantic, constant motion. Here Peter Bradshaw explains why Vertov was the punk rock film-maker of his day and why Man with a Movie Camera is worth your time. Man with a Movie Camera is released in select UK cinemas today.

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