The perfect movie For me, “Yuryev Day” is the perfect film, and I am glad that it is a film in my native language. He either partially formed or accurately reflected my personal understanding of the art of cinema.
1) Cinema does not reflect the existing reality, it simulates it.
2) The director does not answer the questions, you give the answers yourself.
I understand the “dark” picture that is rapidly unfolding before the eyes of the main character as her personal view of this world that is already alien to her. Therefore, everything that happens around it acquires hypertrophied, distorted features. What does it have to do with this Yuriev? She has no acquaintances there - none. No home. She even speaks another language oversaturated with intellectual pathos! She is bound only by a son who has disappeared, who has been swallowed by an incomprehensible city. And in search of a son, she encounters very real people. Which for her at first are not yet people, but part of a terrible dream. And only giving up something of her own (some rules of behavior, connection with the “real” world), the singer becomes closer to the inhabitants of the province, sees in them a human form. And later he even looks for (and finds!) in them the features of the closest person to her - Andrew's son.
What Love lost and what Love gained at the end of the film - this is the question Kirill Serebrennikov offers you to answer.
If this film first hooks you, then everything will go exponentially.
Since I watched the film in one breath, with increasing delight, I think my vision of the movie coincided with the director’s.
10 out of 10
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