Perestroika is only the third feature that the Russian-born writer-director Slava Tsukerman has completed since 1983's Liquid Sky, and only the second of those films to open in U.S. theaters (after the 2004 documentary Stalin's Wife). That's enough to arouse the curiosity of movie freaks of a certain age who remember Liquid Sky, including--maybe especially--those who were too young and/or too far away from an art house to actually see the thing when it was released but who spent a fair amount of time imagining what it might be like, based on the print ad in the movie section of the Village Voice and whatever written or spoken reports might come one's way. (It was the kind of movie that inspired witnesses to try to describe its basic outlines as if they'd seen Bigfoot.)
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