Libertango: I was looking for his stepfather, and he turns out he needed a younger sister! You know? . The mystery of the film is in the deafening simplicity and authenticity, the mundaneness of events. Whatever frame you take, everything is so familiar and clear that it seems that you do not need to watch it. That's clear. Even when an intrigued neighbor theatrically gauzes her eyes at the fence - you can easily identify her in the circle of your country friends.
You have to watch the movie! Because even the penny difficulties of buyers from the seller Larisa (Maria Kulikova) causes understanding and sympathy, and if necessary, she is ready to stand up for a person and help for real. And now, it seems, the woman is confidently standing on her feet... But... His son is at an age when he has a son. We have to decide something, we have to do something... The struggle for her son, when the mind and feelings collide, turns into such a piercing blinding pain for a young woman that almost ruins her chance for happiness. And when, in an attempt to justify her outburst of fierce distrust of a normal, finally, man, she talks about her wounds, it seems that the piercing eternal truth of life appears before the viewer.
The appearance of Maria Kulikova in the Russian cinema of recent years resembles Libertango performed by Astor Piazzolla. From film to film, from plot to plot, you hear this magnificent melody, this rhythm, this drama. In each of her appearances, Maria Kulikova tries to shout or reach her beloved, splash out or turn out with creative fire, but these splashes and twists do not end with one film, but are weaved into new plots of writers. And there is no strength to stop this melody, this dance of love and some higher revelation that carries the true meaning and justification of our being. It is seen and heard in every note, in every step of her dance. And to this melody of Piazzolla, as well as to the roles of Maria Kulikova, you come back again and again. This is always new and exciting!
For this film is a truly beautiful work of wonderful women: writer, director and actress; and it means that the characters of the film, in the end, necessarily find each other!
9 out of 10