about life and death Nope. This film is not about Russia, not about the hinterland, not about the blackness and hopelessness of existence. That, too, though. . .
It's a film about life and death. No wonder, the director emphasized this in the very title of the picture.
Filmed simply, unpretentiously, artlessly, at first glance. But if you look closely, each feature, stroke, detail give an addition, bring fullness, suggest the deep meanings of what was conceived and embodied on the screen.
For me, this director was a revelation. I will definitely be looking at his paintings. Because such a merciless and open truth about all of us, about each of us living here and now, must still be sought.
Sooner or later, every person, very often quite suddenly and unpredictably, falls a huge, overwhelming grief at the loss of loved ones. And it happens that the very realization that this lost, gone forever, was loved, comes to us only after his death - the inevitable, infinite, black emptiness that grows inside you and eats you whole, plunged into complete and deaf darkness and wild, unbearable pain.
How do you move on when it becomes impossible, unthinkable? Then we bring the deceased loved ones back - mentally or simply naturally, digging the grave. And now, the deceased is again next to him, talking, sitting, sleeping, helping by his very presence to close the gaping wound of the heart, which can not be healed in the church, because compassion, separation is possible only with someone who, just like you at the moment, tears from the loss of this particular person, and this rarely happens. But... Something's wrong. It's not like that. Just like before. And you can't stitch up the pain. A cruel world bursts into troubled relatives, police, doctors, etc.
That's the movie. Not that. About a thousand other small and big important things that flash through your head when you watch it, and stay in your heart, in your memory when it ends. It is impossible to catch them immediately, but this is a beautiful epilogue to this work. Chief! .
I want to celebrate the excellent work of all the actors. In the first place I put the works of Olga Lapshyna, Yana Troyanova, Anna Ukolova. The female characters in the picture are extremely strong! Very complex, contradictory, simply unbearable characters and scenes that are so perfectly played-lived. Bravo!
10 out of 10
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