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Denmark, Poland, Japan · 2014
Rated NR · 1h 37m
Director Hanna Polak
Starring
Genre Documentary
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Right outside of Moscow is the largest junkyard in the world, the Svalka, run by the Russian mafia. There young Yula lives with her mother, her friends and others. She dreams of escaping and changing her life, even if it seems impossible. The film covers her fourteen year journey to achieving her dream.
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The New York Times by Neil Genzlinger
Approach Something Better to Come with the same patience that the filmmaker exhibited in shooting it and you’ll be rewarded. That is, if your definition of “rewarded” includes being dismayed by the bleakness that exists on the edges of prosperity.
The Hollywood Reporter by Neil Young
A bit of community spirit and camaraderie, it seems, can go a very long way, and sequences of spectacularly dystopian-apocalyptic, third-world bleakness are leavened by moments of incongruous beauty, even grace.
Village Voice by Pete Vonder Haar
Perhaps even more disturbing than the Dickensian in extremis ordeal of Svalka life — including her rational yet heartbreaking decision to give up her baby rather than raise it in the dump — is Yula's straightforward acceptance of her situation.
Los Angeles Times by Sheri Linden
Beyond her tenacious and intimate reporting, director and cinematographer Polak has made a work of powerful images — heart-rending, elegiac, charged with hope.
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