The Earth Is Blue as an Orange

9/3/2024

This is one of these true-life fly on the wall documentaries that really does hit home. It centres around the mother of four "Anna" who is trying to bring up her children with some semblance of normality amidst the ongoing troubles in the Donbass area of the Ukraine. With the bombs dropping and the bullets never far away, the family decide to make a film depicting their day to day struggles and their day to day joys - and, surprisingly, there are quite a few of the latter to brighten up the otherwise prevailing scenario of doom and gloom. The children age from mid-teens to ten years younger, and they share a passion for the cinema. Now there is a lack of what we could call spontaneity here. The cast - all amateurs who really are living through this situation, do frequently come across as w