Troika (1998)

• 68%
• 1998
• Jennifer Montgomery

"Jennifer is doubly challenged. As a professional journalist, she's trapped on a pleasure boat with Russian ultra-nationalist and macho pig Vladimir Zhirinovsky, conducting an interview that turns into a battle of wills. At home, her lesbian lover teases and insults her relentlessly. Weaving together scenes that present encounters with both characters, Montgomery reveals their unlikely similarity by employing a dispassionate style that renders each power play the more insidious. As a result, the politics of personal relationships and the personal implications of political beliefs become impossible to imagine separately.