It is clear that the film is extremely personal, if only because the daughters will remember the film of his father – Andrei Smirnov “Autumn”, where the story is also about adultery. On the other hand, the story of love and life in two cities: St. Petersburg and Moscow for St. Petersburg Smirnova (albeit raised in Moscow) can not be completely alien.
A separate artistic decision of the film can be considered the choice of actors. Not only do neither Porechenkov nor Mikhalkova have a model appearance (rather on the contrary, the type of people from the people), so Muscovite Mikhalkova is forced to play Petersburg and is mistaken in phonetics.
However, no special role of the city in the film do not play, except to think why a resident of Chelyabinsk to come to Kazan, a little more difficult.
Despite all these problems, the final film can be considered quite good, it feels the voice and intonation of the director, and this is now quite a lot.
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