Not bad for Russian cinema. Especially the camera work and just a chic role of the main character - by Nastya Strukova. A depressing, social drama about teenage motherhood. Hedgehog movie, maybe in spades. Read Professor Preobrazhensky from "Heart of a Dog", a monologue about devastation - It will be a tone to overshadow the life strategy of the film. For those of you who know how hard it is to live for most Russian people, watch You don't have to, you don't have to see scars in movies. 👓 Review written: October 16, 2022, Olya Grinevskaya (Alenushka).
I watched this film, immediately assuming what it is about, directors in Russia shoot either ass-and-fart comedies are not clear for anyone, or some hellish nigger like cargo 200. This film added its zest, everything that happens and the experiences of the main characters are absolutely meaningless and lead to nothing.
I’m not going to paint the plot, it makes no sense, it’s just a stream of something, sometimes it’s not even clear what the characters say and what is happening in principle. I would rather write about the concept of the film - the entourage of Russia in 2000 is only more grotesque.
If hospitals are some dark, ugly surroundings, dilapidated toilets, collapsed tiles, doctors who look like half-body guides to the afterlife and so on - such hospitals I have never seen, I honestly confess.
If an apartment or a house is a beggar Soviet kennel, this is just a concentrate, the heroes sleep on the floor, in empty rooms, in the twilight, furniture and decoration just scream ' look at them beggars, see how bad and depressing everything is, boo!'
If teachers are not human and they do not care about children, if the mother is a sick schizoid, if the brother is a rapist, in short you understand.
If the main character is, of course, who flew at 14 from her brother and gave birth to the fruit of incest, which she hides and tries to sell to the Gypsies, and suffers from self-hatred and hatred from relatives, you probably ask ' What?' but yes, it is so - that is, in this film they are so trying to show that everything is very bad - that it does not work, well, you just do not believe anything in the film, immediately understand that it is all production and farce. There is nothing positive in the film - that is absolutely nothing, nothing good happens with the heroine for the whole film, nothing good happens for the whole film in principle - bad leads to the worst, that is the logic of the film.
There are no positive characters in the film - all with dull faces, all condemningly looking, all beggars, dirty and so on. Here she is the problem - this does not happen, yes Lena Lanskikh we understood ' aaaa rashka, aaaa depth, aaa poverty, here they are all so bad and still the main character is three times worse' but it does not work like this, the main character begins to annoy less than in the middle of the film.
I do not want to say anything, but such films do not shoot a lot of intelligence, seriously, camera work, script, dialogue and so on are all average, to pile depressions do not need talent to show the hyperbolized hell of the Russian hinterland too.
3 out of 10.
The film “Nobody” leaves a painful feeling, I want to erase these 1.5 hours from memory. Lena Lanskikh chose a really important topic - teenage pregnancy, teenage mothers. We have to talk about it. But do not lecture teenagers when the case is already done, and explain to people that it is not a crime that children need help.
Lanskikh went the easiest way - just fix the fact and broadcast the worst possible scenario on the screen. After all, the more dirt, hatred, despair on the screen, the higher the chances for festival awards.
Some will say that it is necessary to show this very reality so that more people think about the problems. Ok, so I realized that this is a cry for help, so he understood, and she did not understand and condemned, and Masha’s grandmother did not see this film at all, because it will never be shown on TV.
It seems to me that the common problem of all these acutely social films is that most simply capture reality without explaining to the viewer how to do otherwise. So in this film we only see how bad the heroine is, but no one shows us how it should be good.
How to make a career in Russian cinema. Instructions.
When I saw this poster, I wasn’t expecting anything good. There was still a little hope inside. And suddenly it is just a visual, and suddenly it is just atmospheric and stylistic tinsel, which covers a talented script and interesting characters. But no. For young Russian authors, everything goes in a circle. Especially those who dream of awards at foreign film festivals and who do not care about the audience of 80 percent of the population of our country.
Director Elena Lansky does not understand what she did. Authors like her, at least, would benefit from world cinematography and analysis skills. This director does not have the innate sense and talent that would allow him to understand the main truth. Cinema has existed for almost 130 years and costs too much money to make it for themselves and for a bunch of overzealous critics who have seen such a life & #39 only in news reports and admire the all-consuming blackness of the backward Russian hinterland.
How to become a famous author director in Russia? Director Lansky once again confirmed this theory. Unfortunately, this way is suitable only for people who are not tormented by conscience at night. Let's go!
1. Collect all the blackest memories of childhood. Friends' stories. Neighbors. Or a police report.
2. Write it down as it is. (Why do we need drama if we have life!)
3. Three times increase the horror of the written (because the movie is concentrate!)
4. Forbid heroes to smile and rejoice no matter what!
5. Let them talk about their problems (why do they talk about it?) It is easier to do ' cinema for deaf-mutes' but ' thinking people'. It doesn’t matter if it kills your entire life inside the movie. What's she for?
6. The more hopeless the atmosphere in the film, the more chances to get to the European film festival.
6. Ask the art post and the opera post to make the image heavier. Dirt it. We need butter! No counterpoints! If the hero suffers, the image, sound and thin post should shout about it even louder!
7. There has to be a stupid hero. If not the main character, at least her boyfriend. And it is desirable that he look like a Gopnik. And that he had no soul.
8. Mother must be scary and sick.
9. Teachers are inhumans.
10. A child from incest.
11.The weather is shit.
12. All people are shit.
13. The main character is a victim of violence (you can continue the list of characters in the same spirit!) Who has enough imagination?
14. The camera has to walk by itself. Don't make a play! Operating school remained in the last century. The concept of film language died along with the greatest directors of the 20th century. Imagine your 5-year-old brother filming you on camera - add a darker filter. The post is ready!
15. Be sure to edit the movie in pieces. Why do the mise en scenes end? Let the viewer think. What did the director Lansky mean? Maybe I'm the fool... Smart people probably understand that. . .
16. If you have complied with all these rules and you have a black movie without drama about flat bastards from Russia - you can send to the festival. The jury prize is guaranteed!
Unfortunately, young directors often follow this path. Of course I will. But the truth is huge. Everyone wants to talk about a tragic life. Or make a movie on a social theme. But is there not a single director in Russia who can do this with love and respect for people? Do you think people in the outback are not having fun? That they're all so dark that they're awful? Do you think they'd want to watch this black woman? Don’t you want to make them happy and make something good inside your movie? Yes, even though poverty and hard life, the Russian person, it seems to me, has always been distinguished by his steadfastness and his love of life, no matter what. Your sense of humor, after all. Aren't you ashamed to smear people like that? When will we regain the true meaning of the humanistic approach? Talking about victims of violence, for example, is completely untactful, if only to talk about their despair! This artist has the right to write anything. He's got canvas and paint. And you, dear director, have millions of rubles. To make such a movie, you should be ashamed for the money spent not on the needs of poor girls from the province, but on this picture! Because your picture won't help them!
About the skill of the director and the abundance of stamps I do not want to talk at all. I listed them in the instructions above.
I understand that it is much easier to please foreign and some Russian film critics in this way than to seek a synthesis of the tragic and beautiful, to develop a love of humanity. I want to make a career faster. But, having made a career, such directors, as a rule, can not stop and continue ' give birth to such freaks.
Of course, the movie has to be different! But the young director should understand that such a movie in Russia is just a pond. And that goes beyond all boundaries.
This is my long and emotional speech. I'm sorry, but I can't hold on anymore. This is my first review in my life after 10 years of watching modern author’s film and trying to find something decent in it. Alas.
And the director Lansky I recommend to carefully review the films Balabanov. Apparently she didn't understand them at all. Balabanov's films have a stunning light. Which exists even in the terrible and tragic realities of his paintings. I hope that the director Lanskikh will once again think about his profession, draw conclusions. But I feel like she probably won't understand my message. Who knows... Hope is still lurking somewhere inside.
How difficult it is to give birth at fifteen. . . -
Another women's film about the difficult female share. This time a variation on the Faustian Gretchen (the prototype of which Goethe, as you know, personally ordered to hang when he was his minister): a 14-year-old girl from a small Ural town with dilapidated houses and people living in them dilapidated, who gave birth to a daughter (and almost from incest with her stepbrother) had through this a bunch of social and medical problems (all her lactations and bleeding, accompanied by medical terms that I do not even want to google, and illustrations to them - so get rid of the need for a child! As it ripens, it pulsates, then rolls, then retreats, being washed away by the opposite wave of child love. And so, even after a predictably grim denouement.
The female director was given a prize at the San Sebastian Festival. I think it’s like, ', it’s good that I don’t have it.
“Draw” is a full-length debut film directed by Elena Lansky, which participated in the main competition of the 32nd Kinotavr and absorbed all sorts of templates of gloomy social cinema. Russia through the eyes of Lansky looks simultaneously and harshly as in the paintings of Vasily Sigarev, and is felt as one big metaphor for the modern regional world, taken as if from the films of Alexei Balabanov, with whom the director is also related by the producer in the person of Sergei Selyanov. Even a slight similarity with the works of Kirill Serebrennikov is caught, thanks to a very absurd and abstract ending, but no more. However, Lansky reminds the above authors only visually, in semantic terms losing to more venerable colleagues in the shop either because of inexperience, or because of some personal qualities.
The film tells the story of a 14-year-old girl named Vika (Anastasia Strukova), who lives in a small Ural town with her mother, father and older brother. And it seems that Vika does not stand out from her peers - she is a completely ordinary teenager from the region. During the day, she goes to the swamp in the forest to collect berries, in the evening she dances at a school disco with friends or, out of boredom and still immature mind, indulges in a “dog high” in the company. However, Vika secretly hides at her home a baby that appeared to her as a result of rape, which only her relatives know about. More precisely, others have heard about him, but no one believes in rape, since no one wants to listen to a 14-year-old girl trying to explain to everyone that her older brother used her. It is easier for adults to accuse Vika of all mortal sins than to try to listen to her.
The main problem of “Draw” as a full-fledged work is that it is almost unable to leave something behind in the minds of the audience. And it's not about the quality of the script or the production of the debutante, no. As the debut film, "Nobody" can be called very successful - this is not a talentless film, but it categorically lacks something bright inside itself. If we go back to Sigarev, Balabanov and Serebrennikov, their plots, despite the presence of violence in history, suffering and cruel episodes, still bore good. Lanskikh, though, shows very expressively the severity of life in a small region through the eyes of a 14-year-old girl, but does it exclusively with hate speech. She as the author seems to lack maturity, which is why the film turned out to be very infantile.
However, in some places this very infantility plays into the hands of the picture. As an example, the most striking episodes of “Draws” are scenes of Vicki’s interaction with the adult world. To contact her father, who works in the police, the girl has to steal from the grocery store – under other circumstances, the father is silent, talking to his daughter extremely rarely (the film has only one scene of dialogue between them). And when trying to speak out about her pain and the problems that arose after the rape, Vika hears only insults. Lansky reaches the top in this regard in a scene when a pregnant woman, devastating a glass of vodka, tries to teach the main character the right way of life. In this regard, the director repeats the classic dogma from a typical social cinema, without adding anything from himself: “To see straw in someone else’s eye, to ignore the logs in your own.”
Unfortunately, Lansky very quickly crosses the line, not noticing a turn away from the author’s statement on the lack of empathy in people to the ordinary black woman. “Draw” is primarily engaged in the exploitation of the themes raised in the film, two hours proving to the viewer that the water is wet. In many ways, the picture is saved by the charm of the debut work, in which uncertainty and directorial impulsivity merge into a single whole, filling the most significant episodes of the tape with energy and passion. But, as much as the director wants, “Nobody” is a dead movie, cold in relation to the viewer, which tries to fight the evil language of evil, without even thinking about something bright. Here I want to recall the late period of the work of the Danish director Nicholas Winding Refn – all his first works, though filled with ultraviolence, cruelty and hatred, but they were still about the purification of a person going to the light. At Lansky, the viewer is forced to chew a lump in the throat on the final credits.
Really drags "Draw" to the top of the main role performer Anastasia Strukova, for whom the role of Vicki became the debut. And only for the zeal and sincerity with which the actress suffers on the screen, acting out a physically and morally exhausted 14-lobed girl, the film can be forgiven a lot.
7 out of 10