Love Grishins In the memorable scene from "Let's Live Until Monday" quiet Genka Shestopal explained the first beauty of the class Rita: "A person needs a state of love. It's not fun to live. Well, it's easiest for me to fall in love with you. A little older (by age, but not life experience) the hero of “GREGORY GIRLS” has many similar feelings: he falls in love with the charmer Dorothy, who took his place in... the center of the attack of the school football team. Demortified as a goalkeeper, Gregory gathers the courage to ask her out on a date, but the meeting does not happen at all as he expected.
Shot in the summer of 1980 for a very modest budget in the Scottish province with local teenagers, the film suddenly became first a British and then a world sensation. It is eagerly watched to this day, and the culmination of the recognition was the demonstration of a fragment during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London 2012: Dorothy led the ball to Gregory’s enthusiastic comment “She’s ab-sol-ute-ly gorgeous!”, the crowded stadium erupted with a standing ovation. What is the reason for the unfading popularity of such a simple, at first glance, history?
Tender adolescence is a special time of life, full of unique discoveries and worries. Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair), lanky, shy, sincere, vulnerable, charming... made you know, must be millions of viewers. Director William Forsyth - a leading figure in the cinema of Scotland - portrays the world as a little "phase shifted": it is populated by cute eccentrics and funny eccentrics. Yes, there is always wonderful weather in it, and no one will say a bad word here, but when there is confusion and a storm of feelings in the soul, you hardly pay attention to it!
Why did this touching and quite chaste comedy of growing up not find a way to the Soviet rental in its time? Perhaps it lacked social issues, or, who knows, was affected by the cooling of relations with the West after the boycott of the Moscow Olympics. In any case, one can only regret that the girl's "relay" - prank or horizontal dancing, lying on the pre-sunset grass, did not become part of our common cultural code. “It is hard to be in love. Especially if you do not know what kind of girl, concluded the sister of the main character.
