“A Dark Dark Man” – Noir Noir Noir [TELEVISION REVIEW]
Originally released as a feature film in 2019, this Kazakh movie directed by Adilkhan Yerzhanov and written by Yerzhanov and Roelof Jan Minneboo, has been reconfigured as a three part limited series. Opening in a dead cornfield set against the backdrop of beautiful verdant mountains, Yerzhanov immediately sets a stage where death is all around with hope a distant glimmer. Initially dark in a black comedy sort of way, “A Dark, Dark Man” is set up like a Becket play that has no beginning and no end; it’s bleak from start to finish, surrealistic, almost existential in plot. It could be today; it could be the past. Daniar Alshinov as Bekzat in “A Dark, Dark Man.” Photo courtesy of MHz Choice. Bekzat, a detective in one of the many local Kazakh police districts, lives his life according to the rules set out for him. The reward is a small work load with preordained solutions and regular envelopes of cash, divided between him and his boss. Step into someone else’s district and there’s hell to pay. The crime is as unimportant as its solution; it’s the cash envelopes that are at stake. This may be the most corrupt and incompetent police force on the planet. The murder of a child has been…
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