The film is made almost entirely with archival footage, with riveting extended performances instead of talking heads.
Since the film premiered in January at Sundance — where it won both the documentary audience award and the festival favorite award — the geopolitics that ‘Navalny’ documents bracingly in real time have exploded in the open.
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