Not another word! Shut up, everyone. How interesting is the play by Lorca (Spain, early XX century), staged by a Soviet Georgian director almost at the end of the USSR. Well, both peoples are attributed to pride and passion, and, in my opinion, Georgian women can play Spanish.
In the film almost only women, Pepe barely flickers in a couple of shots - all by play. Very carefully recreated the atmosphere of the original – unhappy, crushed by the mother sisters, from despair made of their relationship a perfect viper – each of them dirty, spying, slander. Everyone is hysterically in love with one guy - not because the guy is somehow especially good, but because otherwise there is no hopelessness at all, and so there is something to torture the soul.
Ioseliani perfectly played Bernardo Alba, a real tyrant, who just to keep the stamp “my house is fine”, to the detriment of everything – relations with neighbors, the happiness of daughters. At the same time, she is not an ordinary domestic despot, tearing her cowardly anger at helpless domestics, but a completely iron woman, ready to fight for the honor of the family, as she understands it, even with the whole world.
And I really liked Augustinas - revived a somewhat schematic role of the original. Such a girl in her years, a lick, but not disgusting, something in her is still alive, wanting to free. And, in my opinion, she is quite beautiful - although she is no longer a young girl, but a mature woman. What else does Pepe need? he is not a boy himself.
The color scheme is also good: the contrast of black, white clothes and red dress is quite symbolic.
But still... not quite felt very interesting in the original relationship Bernarda and her maid. The duet is not played here at all, each plays its own role separately. Too bad. I also did not think the younger sister’s play was sincere to the end, although her role is the title one, and the other two sisters (except the ugly one) do not stand out at all, a kind of background. And the meaning of the presence in the play of the crazy grandmother of the sisters, the director, apparently, did not understand and left purely out of respect for the author. But the grandmother was kind of the quintessence of the desire of the Bernard family for freedom - and their deep unhappiness at the inability to get freedom.
The plot as such in the play is minimal and can be told in a couple of phrases. And the psychological drama, which the film was supposed to be, does not turn out in every scene - and the film looks long because of this.
I should have seen some other films on this play.