“Everybody smile and say ‘cinema,'” young Myroslava Trofymchuk instructs several Ukrainian soldiers, as they obligingly pose and perform for her camera, their brawny tank reduced to a prop in the rubbly, wintry background. It’s the only time we see the masculine agents of conflict in “,” a documentary with its multiple lenses otherwise turned entirely on the women and children living through the War in Donbass.
Never contextualized in the film, the title “The Earth is Blue as an Orange” comes from a surrealist Paul Eluard poem, and apparently refers to improbable contradictions in everyday life: States of terror, despair and familial joy commingle throughout Tsilyk’s portrait of Myroslava, her three younger siblings and their enterprising single mother Anna as they forge collaborative art between juddering bomb blasts in their home town of Krasnohorivka, on the frontline of the war.
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