The Italian

Saw a good movie at DIA last month. Directed by a documentary film maker, Andrei Kravchuk, the Russian orphans seemed so plausible (not that I've ever been a Russian orphan, nor even an American one) that you almost think you're watching a documentary . . . but with more drama and no narrator. The story jerks tears, but the acting is so good and the setting so authentic (I presume, having never been in a Russian orphanage) that you don't mind suspending disbelief now and then and allowing the movie to draw you in. See it if you can find it. We liked Illusionist, too, but can't compare it to Prestige because we haven't seen Prestige yet but we promise we will.