"I know what you need!" The film, like many children of perestroika cinema, absorbed both the traditions of a strong Soviet film product with a responsible attitude to the script (A. Inin), directing, acting (everyone worked magnificently here, except for teenagers), and “new trends”, among which can be called, for example, “naked nature”. Olga Mashnoy.
The fact that the picture was originally filmed for television, on the one hand, somewhat reduces the requirements for it, on the other hand, pleases the fact that it is not a craft, but an independent, interesting, worthy of attention artwork. History, of course, is as old as the world - marital life is eaten up by everyday life, life is established, career goes uphill - where there are tenderness and confessions of love - and the husband "falls" on the young, which does not notice the wife, who went headlong into the fascinating and exotic work of a family psychologist at that time. But this is the last property and gives the highlight of the film. Irina Miroshnichenko, in addition to the fact that she is a chic woman, perfectly plays here and the master of work with the vicissitudes of family life, and the abandoned wife, faced with loneliness and found that the skill in her own way did not work, was shortsighted and could not guarantee a happy family life. The finale is also predictable, the more curious – what ways the heroes will come to it. And came in different ways – Natalia through fashion magazines, a meeting with bodybuilders, acquaintance with the “mountain guys”, Roman – through, alas, the bitter realization that sometimes age is not just numbers. Irina Miroshnichenko and Alexander Lazarev perfectly coped with their heroes.
The secondary characters were also pleased – sex therapist Kulkevich (L. Yarmolnik), exalted girlfriend (T. Kanaeva), judge eating apples at the judging table (N. Ter-Osipyan), class leader of her son, who started dancing with the youth (M. Bulgakova), shocked visitor (Z. Vasilkova).
All this allows us to conclude: this is a very good film, the expiration date of which, I think, will expire very soon.
8 out of 10