The Loveless by Andrey Zvyagintsev opened the competitive screenings at the international film forum.

      The film premiere was followed with a 10-minute ovation to the film director Andrey Zvyagintsev, actor Alexei Rosin, actress Maryana Spivak and producer Alexander Rodnyansky. The screening attracted lots of prominent representatives of all spheres of French society.

      "Zvyagintsev’s auteur cinema is very much akin to me, that humanistic nature of his films," said the famous Paris lawyer, Mr. Emmanuelle Michaud. According to him, Andrey Zvyagintsev has "remarkably shown the selfless volunteers of the rescue team searching for the missing teenager." In its dramatic power and impact on the viewers, The Loveless is among the "most serious contenders for the main festival award Palme d'Or”, he believes.

      When answering journalists' questions, the film director did not argue the opinion that his new work makes a trilogy with the two previous films, Elena (2011) and Leviathan (2014).