Valerca, Valerca... I love black and white movies and photos. The color is too relaxing on its own: clicked and fine, and the palette gives an additional incentive for creative imagination. The film "Valera" is made very artistically, lovingly. A good picture, without excessive moralization, sometimes even quite funny. Impressed, for example, the photo of the hostess, placed in the salary for the icon. Good woman, she knows her worth. This is a joke, of course.
Great acting ensemble. Love Sokolov is beautiful! Amazing actress. Overall, the film is very serious. Even dramatic. For example, when we thought about how soldiers who met the Great Patriotic War as young lived like this 20 years after it? In the episode where Valera's father tells Arkady Sergeyevich: "It was good in the war!" I felt the right person, my friends were... Now no.', a lump comes to the throat.
A simple seemingly simple story is shown, which for a long time have not been removed, spreading into tens or hundreds of talentless “series”, but it expresses ALL. I recommend watching for those who have not yet forgotten how to perceive a smart movie about the life of ordinary people, their joys and sorrows, about the growing up of a person, about the friendship of an adult and a boy. About how beautiful the world is and how beautiful Childhood is, where every seemingly small thing can turn into a real miracle.
For someone, this will necessarily be a revelation, and someone with nostalgia will remember their departed relatives and, perhaps, themselves in a distant childhood.
P.S. “Eh, Valerka, Valerka,” says the romantic Arkady Sergeyevich, “I wonder how you will live in 30 years?” Are you going to watch the binoculars from the moon?
After 30 years, 1994 came, and life in our country went in a completely different direction. Movies are also “poor,” unfortunately.