SPUTNIK RUSSIAN FILM FESTIVAL
ДЕВУШКА С КОСОЙ
Recommended. Totally hilarious. Created by two women: Viktoriya Bugayeva and director Olga Popova. In Russia Christmas is celebrated on 7th January in a Russian orthodox church, it's a religious holiday, not a common one like in Western Europe. Gifts are given on New Year's Day and on New Year's Eve a salad with compulsory peas is eaten. A boy stuck in the lift ("I'm calm." "You don't sound like you are") is forced to listen to the operator's "comforting" scary stories about people stuck in lifts, his girlfriend feels dumped and tries to kill herself, a few couples fight, a man is desperate to buy a tin of peas and a girl with a scythe is trying to find the right address which is the same block where all the couples experience strife. Plenty of funny accidents happen. Alexandra Ursuliak did her stunts herself while she was pregnant.
ИВАН ЦАРЕВИЧ И СЕРЫЙ ВОЛК (IVAN TSAREVICH & THE GREY WOLF)
Watchable. An inventive story mixing several fairy tale elements with a few modern ones. An egalitarian one too as here it's the woman who decides. Visually pleasant although the characters move somewhat mechanically.
ДЕНЬ РОЖДЕНИЯ АЛИСЫ (ALICE'S BIRTHDAY)
Walked out. Nothing to look forward to in the story. Very infantile animation with ugly, grainy backgrounds.
I don't understand why adults with 2 kids pay less than a regular adult ticket price. They're surely 500+ beneficiaries so they can afford to pay more, not less.
ОН-ДРАКОН (HE'S A DRAGON AKA DRAGON - LOVE IS A SCARY TALE)
Watchable. Nothing much happens in the slow-paced fairy-tale with songs and prolonged sequences but what is clear is that the dragon symbolises male sexual desire and a girl should only succumb to it if she falls in love and marries him. At the same time it's her to decide who that'll be. The wooden village on the lake looks just like in the Middle Ages. Great attention was put to costumes. Beautiful wintry vistas. Good-looking men. The CGIs are decent too.
ЯЗЫЧНИКИ (PAGANS)
Watchable. Quite an ordinary story about one's beliefs being one's beliefs and nothing more. And no religion will save your heart broken by unrequited love.
КАК ВИТЬКА ЧЕСНОК ВЕЗ ЛЕХУ ШТЫРЯ В ДОМ ИНВАЛИДОВ (how viktor "the garlic" took alexey "the stud" to the nursing home)
Watchable. Like father like son. Both are bums. No wonder they despise each other. A common journey is bound to change that of course. The plot's so exploited I only watched it for the hot blonde lead and decent hip-hop as well as great techno in the soundtrack.
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