In The Crosswind

Martti Helde’sIn the Crosswind is a powerful look at the harrowing events of the Russian Holocaust through the eyes of an Estonian woman who is exiled to Siberia with her young daughter. Its emotional potency and historical accuracy, though, only take it so far. Told mostly through the structural conceit of frozen moments in time, with actors frozen in their places as the camera moves around them, the filmmakers are able to craft an impressive physical re-enactment of reality. Unfortunately,...