"Ryaba Chicken" Asya Klyachina is one of Konchalovsky’s best films. High style household. Many characters, long monologues. There was a sense of “non-kinoness” in all this, almost like in life. Only black and white. As if from the point of view of an achromatopsis; the collective farm looked sloping, crooked, wrong, not at all according to Pyriev. And “Asya” came out in the late 60s, when there was a tendency among film artists to show the truth, cut, so to speak, the uterus, and make all sorts of “subversive” films.
"Ryaba chicken" is something completely different. Staged, a little artificial, to some extent even lubricant.
And you're looking. And here's the comparison. And it does not seem that the collective farm is crooked and Asya seems to be more beautiful and younger, in general everything is somehow higher, spiritual and clearer. I think it was.
Inna Churikova is a great actress. Magnificent. She looked in her place, absolutely “in the stream” and did not spoil, but only complemented and deepened the image played in the first film by Ia Savvina. A real woman. Charming, from whose face has not yet descended a touch of freshness, wisdom, sincerity. The one that was the heroine of Asi in the 60s.
The film is easier to perceive than Asya. There is a clear and meaningful plot, and in the best traditions of the “Old Kares”. Both Konchalovsky and Churikova in their work are quite deep and convincing. And the film is smart, deep. Changes in the country and in people’s lives. Artistically bright and in Russian - convincing. It is even strange how Konchalovsky has not yet changed his mind to make such Russian-village films after a series of Hollywood projects.
I think he looked like a opportunist, filming this "River". But what difference, in fact, if "Ryabah" itself came out in the end such a wonderful picture.
