‘The Hill’: Cannes film revisits the Soviet Union’s smouldering remains

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‘The Hill’: Cannes film revisits the Soviet Union’s smouldering remains The violent legacy of the break-up of the Soviet Union is dissected in “The Hill” by Lina Tsrimova and Denis Gheerbrant, an astonishing documentary shot entirely on a gargantuan rubbish heap in Kyrgyzstan and screened this week at the Cannes Film Festival’s parallel section ACID.