SPUTNIK RUSSIAN FILM FESTIVAL
All 12 VR films looked blurry but, while only the first one was in 3D, all 12 looked as if they were.
Озеро Байкал: Зимний дух (LAKE BAIKAL: THE SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY OF EXTREME WATER)
Recommended. You can see a banya together with taking an ice dip as well as a Russian Orthodox Church with Asian-sounding music played inside. Makes you wonder at the exotics of the Baikal Lake area.
Между Петровым и Водкиным (BETWEEN PETROV AND VODKIN)
Watchable. A blend of black and white archival photos and colourful paintings. Makes you look around a lot but the story's quite niche.
Время Первых. Первый выход человека в открытый космос (SPACEWALK)
Recommended. The real Leonov, now 70 or 80, presents it to the other one, Pavel Belyaev, who's been to the Moon but has never done a walk. You learn interesting facts and see the original comonauts. The pencil scene from the full-length movie is recreated too.
История одного шута (THE STORY OF ONE JESTER)
Watchable. Unfortunately black and white - far too passe for such technology but you can experience your own funeral, see the coffin carried and buried, watching it from down below.
Вне тела (OUT OF BODY)
Watchable. A great short crime film which ends too abruptly.
VRability: Максим Киселев (VRABILITY: MAXIM KISELEV)
Watchable. The skyscrapers look better than the wheelchair ice dancing.
Открытый космос (THE SPACEWALKER)
Watchable. Your only chance to experience a spacewalk. I expected it would feel better but the Earth looked a bit like a flat surface.
В кругу семьи (IN A FAMILY CIRCLE)
Watchable. Random scenes showing four different couples, you just follow from one to another. You get to see good times and bad times.
Приключения Ам Няма, Незванный гость (OM NOM)
Watchable. Quite a nice cartoon for little children but again the technology seems wasted on animation.
Камчатка (SNOWBOARD KAMCHATKA)
Watchable. More about sport than the region. Bearable thanks to VR.
Эрмитаж VR. Погружение в историю (HERMITAGE)
Watchable. A fascinating museum, of which you see the main hall and the roof. The film's too slow, too long and verbose. If visiting it can take a lifetime, there's no need to restrict the presentation.
RT: Революция 360. Двор (REVOLUTION 360)
Watchable. Just because it's VR. The plot's rudimentary and it's shot in black and white.
ТРИ БОГАТЫРЯ И МОРСКОЙ ЦАРЬ (three heroes and the king of the sea)
Watchable. Lovely animated creatures, a crazy story of love. Very pleasant. Only the voices sound annoyingly old and murmuring and the music could be better too.
ЭКИПАЖ (FLIGHT CREW)
Watchable. A typical blockbuster where the first hour is pleasurable: about a handsome, cocky pilot, but the second hour starts with an airport apocalypse. From then on obstacles keep piling up and nonsensically lucky escapes follow one another. The nonsense lasts till the end.
ХОРОШИЙ МАЛЬЧИК (THE GOOD BOY)
Recommended. A crazy week at school and after lessons which is fun and perfectly suitble for teenagers.
ПРО ЛЮБОВЬ.ТОЛЬКО ДЛЯ ВЗРОСЛЫХ (ABOUT LOVE. ADULTS ONLY)
Watchable. Five puckish stories, each less and less amusing. In the first one a policewoman gets a guy arrested because it's easier for her to talk to men this way - funny and with reasonable psychology beneath the surface.
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