‘Becoming’ Review: Still Waters Run Deep in a Finely Wrought Kazakh Coming-of-Ager

Clattering unenthusiastically up a hotel stairwell, 17-year-old Mila (a superb Tamiris Zhangazinova) gives off an air of world-weariness. Some of it is earned — as we will quickly find out, this is hardly the first time her flighty mother Dalida (Assel Kaliyeva) has scooped up Mila and her younger sister Lina (Medina Sagindykova) and promised […]