Armando Iannucci
- 61 years old
- Scottish
- Writer, director, producer and satirist
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The Death of Stalin review
This delicious new dark comedy comes courtesy of renowned political satirist Armando Iannucci (The Thick Of It, Veep).
Matthew Turner, i Newspaper, 19th October 2017Armando Iannucci interview
The Independent sat down with The Thick of It creator to discuss the American President, Brexit, and the utterly hilarious The Death of Stalin.
Jack Shepherd, The Independent, 19th October 2017How Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with truth
Armando Iannucci's new film is a romp through some of the darkest days of the 20th century. But, asks one historian, is farce really the best way to understand the dictator's murderous regime - or its legacy in Russia today?
Richard Overy, The Guardian, 18th October 2017The Death Of Stalin a dazzling black Russian comedy
Master of political satire Armando Iannucci takes his trademark high-stakes back-stabbing farce east with The Death Of Stalin, a ghoulish black comedy that deftly melds historical fact and bile-drenched fiction.
Damon Smith, The Irish News, 18th October 2017The Death of Stalin - an audacious comedy of horrors
Armando Iannucci's Soviet-era satire is full of grand absurdity and violent dread.
Danny Leigh, The Financial Times, 18th October 2017The Death of Stalin: amusing, though not clever satire
Stalin dies, giving rise to a lot of averted eyes, thinking on one's feet and winging it in the Kremlin, in Armando Iannucci's passable screwball comedy which might aspire to satire but actually isn't so.
Paddy Kehoe, RTE, 18th October 2017The Death of Stalin and the art of screen swearing
How the writers of Veep and 'The Thick of It brought their gift for profanity to Stalinist Russia.
Joseph Walsh, The Financial Times, 17th October 2017The Death of Stalin review
Armando Iannucci's superlative satire brings together a terrific ensemble.
Eamm Simmonds, The List, 16th October 2017Tucker tells Partridge: 'Brexit is a death cult'
Malcolm Tucker and Alan Partridge, two of Britain's greatest comic creations, have traded insults over Brexit in this week's edition of The Big Issue. Tucker, a staunch Remainer, and Partridge, a Brexiteer, exchange thoughts on the divisive issue via emails - all of which have been published in a four-page feature in the magazine, which is guest-edited by Armando Iannucci, the man behind both characters.
Finlay Greig, i Newspaper, 16th October 2017The Death of Stalin film review
Blimey, but this is a comedy, isn't it? This is a mockery and so it's intended to be barbaric and exaggerated, right? Well, comedy is not a carte blanche for bigotry. There are limits of what's acceptable. We have grown to dismiss blackface and exaggerated representations of homosexuals as a no-go. I think that the humour of The Death of Stalin is plainly founded on xenophobia and prejudices, and so it belongs in a very similar category. Laughing at someone dead on a pool of piss is neither funny nor subversive. It's simply silly and vulgar. Despite the presence of Michael Palin, The Death of Stalin simply isn't The Life of Brian.
Victor Fraga, Dirty Movies, 16th October 2017