With a Grammy nomination for best country instrumental performance, their first album just released on Universal South, fresh off an appearance on "60 Minutes" and several high-profile live performances in New York and Los Angeles, it's safe to say the wonderful Russian band Bering Strait has finally arrived. Were the subjects not such an irresistible combination of wildly talented musicians who are young, attractive, multilingual and not spoiled by success, one could dismiss Nina Gilden Seavey's documentary "The Ballad of Bering Strait" (showing locally via digital projection at Laemmle's Sunset 5 in Los Angeles) as well-timed boosterism with no depth or critical aspects. [...] Seavey lets her subjects talk, and it's hard not to fall in love with the likes of lead vocalist and acoustic guitarist Natasha Borzilova, who starts the movie with long dark hair and has been transformed by the end into a short-haired country blonde.

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