Cinema poetry, the case - not missed! - a successful embodiment on the screen of Inspiration, visited the director, screenwriter part-time. It would not have happened without virtuoso ownership of the film craft as such, but this, as well as a sense of taste and measure, Shakhnazarov-cinematographer can not take.
The briefness of the episodes that formed the film made it possible for numerous actors to be as expressive as possible in the frame, especially the dreaming Caucasian in the subway and the duet of Valery Afanasyev and Galina Anisimova. For the knot of a twisting loop in Space-Time, in the plot of the crossed three times, the charismatic Andrei Panin was successfully found with Anna Germ, who made him a couple of decorated the film. The film looks like an artistic illustration of some properties of the rather mysterious “noosphere” – an entity distinguished by its apologists in a fit of perhaps scientific insight and up to the present time research dissection is not very, it seems, amenable. By genre, you can put on the same shelf with Tom Tykver’s masterpiece “Run, Lola, Run”.
A beautiful cinematic thing, a masterfully made vinaigrette from harmoniously combined diverse with a rare magical effect of enchantment. A worthy Russian contribution to world cinema.