Swan song in TV show To be honest, the film was initially watched with a slight touch of alienation and a lot of irony. Clear, repulsive, the main character, clear and quite predictable plot - its beginning and end. I understand the atmosphere. . . I really like ballet. Not since I was a kid, but I’ve been watching it since then. No, to understand, to feel, to empathize really I began only when I became a very adult. I was shocked by Bezrukov’s performance. Not just as a superb dramatic actor – a very strong, very talented person, at its core. I was shocked by his performance as a dancer - these hands, these lines, this passion and ecstasy that cannot be played, you can only feel, live it. Bezrukov opened up to me from a completely new side. There is so much of him everywhere, in his roles, in his presence, in his tumultuous personal life, which he carefully hides, but which always breaks out, one way or another. . . And suddenly, this movie. And that role. . . I would say that, by character, he is more likely to play Tsiskaridze - with his disregard for others, a sense of his own lifelong genius, with his acutely subtle sense of perception of beauty, with his ruthless and unconditional demand for everyone and, above all, for himself. . . Tsiskaridze is in sight. We don’t know many others. Perhaps it is spilled in the world of ballet, to which I do not belong in any way. And yet... This swan song of the main character shocked me, despite everything I said in the beginning. And the fact that this song was the last on the stage of the evening show on TV is absolutely correct, it is very symbolic, it is the essence of the whole film. . . Thank you to all the filmmakers and actors. Sergey Bezrukov - bravo! . 9 out of 10 Original
This film found me quite by accident – I learned about it after reading an interview with Bezrukov in the magazine STORY. I liked the plot. A lonely ballet star in the past, a snob perfectionist who considers anything unworthy of his talent unworthy of his attention. A person who has set an immeasurably high bar for himself, and quite reasonably believes that he can demand the same from others ("Performance is of great and fundamental importance.") If Mozart was screwed up by some idiot, Mozart is not to blame. He was expelled from everywhere, he has no friends, family, and a progressive injury received in his youth threatens to turn the hero into a sedentary disabled person in a wheelchair in a couple of months. “I’ll die, they’ll make a snotty show about me, you’ll give a snotty interview, and this snotty lump is all that’s left behind me.” And so the hero decides to hasten his end, but make it bright like a flash of lightning, forcing him to finally appreciate his talent, and leaving an indelible mark in the history of ballet.
The beginning of the film upset me a little - a clumsy high-speed car maneuvers among the narrow indoor driveways, bullish behavior of the main character - all this immediately caused some rejection. But then the plot began to develop rapidly, the film captured more and more. The plot was filled with new faces, dialogues, gradually I began to imbue with sympathy and sympathy for the main character. But the climax seemed to be some kind of accelerated rewinding fragment, into which, as a cliff sharply and with pathos, a beautiful, in my opinion, idea flew away.
However, the film left a very good impression. Very harmoniously fit into the game are not related to the acting profession people - Gergiev, artists and employees of the Bolshoi Theatre and the Mariinsky.
“To do anything, you have to be either born desperate or circumstances become desperate.”
The general impression: "This is all that remains after you..." Symbolically in the first shots squeezed the song DDT, paying attention to even such a trifle, immediately realize that the film is not easy.
Each of us at least once thought, “What will I leave behind?” For some, these are empty words, nothing significant, for others – children, while others put meaning into their career. Alexei Temnikov (Sergei Bezrukov) A famous dancer, endowed with a heavy character. It's funny, but I like the hero so much that I don't see any flaws in him, but I like the way this man does. It may be complex, sarcastic, but it is real. And by the way, the people around him know what character, which means they know what to expect. Either take it as it is, or go separately, it is simple.
The hero was played by Sergey Bezrukov, how surprisingly accurately all the steps and high-raised head convey the mood of the character. Sergey is a great actor, it is difficult to doubt his skill, and breathing a drop of genius into his hero, he demonstrated a dancer in love with his work. Ready to go ahead just to get what you want. It is better to burn in plain sight, but to be remembered as a person, rather than regretting day by day... A bright and emotional character sparks his I. And it sparks interest, I looked in one breath!
Of course, the central solo of Bezrukov, but the harmony in the frame of the other characters is visible to the naked eye. Everything is in place and you do not want to clean anyone, and you do not need to. What is remarkable, very cleverly thought out character Alexei Temnikov. His image initially developed as a general picture of genius. And at the end of the film, these boundaries are blurred and we are in front of a real person. I believed it! These "spots" in the style of documentary films fall on the layer of drama as a whole.
The tape is shot very well, there is a panorama of the night city, there are rapid influxes, there are different angles. Playing with the camera fully reflects the idea of the film, like a dance.
About what the movie, about the business, about creativity, and how sometimes the character of such brilliant people is difficult. But if you know what you want from life, if you strive to understand and live as you need, then your determination is not in vain aimed at achieving the goal.
Who should I watch? For those who think outside the box, this story should not be missed!
9 out of 10
Dance is fashionable these days. It doesn't always work out well.
The drama After You leaves two impressions. Too stretched scenes, too unambiguous main character, too mixed real art with the show (the scene with a "parody" on "Let them talk"). It was supposed to be tragic, a kind of peak of broken fate, and for some reason became awkward. For naturalism, it was absolutely not necessary to make a scene with the likeness of “Let them talk” and its host.
The film is aimed at lovers of slow movies. No dynamic. We are invited to watch the last days of a rude, cynical, but very talented dancer who seems not to know what will remain after him. One can involuntarily recall the words of his character from another series when he says to his American wife (I think without titles or names it is clear what this is about): "Dance." Is it art? You die and everyone forgets you. That's fine if they have time to film. And poems are eternal. Ironically, the whole story of the film is built on this line. Is ballet such an incredible art that will conquer not the here and now, but in 50 and 100 years? I think not. Writers and artists with musicians easier: after them there is something incorruptible that can be reread and revised. And dance requires surprise and, like theater, the participation of the audience. Temnikov understands this, which is why it hurts to leave. It always hurts to fall from the top.
Probably, it was the idea of the director, but the main character turned out too unambiguous. Good or bad is up to the viewer. I like characters with a clear position, because the flurry of “ambiguous” is already enough, but the tragic line of this film does not coincide with the overly arrogant behavior of the hero. For such a person, there should be a bigger drama. But much more than that... So I should have taken it differently. Not measuredly, with long panoramic scenes of the cityscape, but boldly, lively, spontaneously, like the dance itself.
“After You” is a drama with a good idea, a good game by Bezrukov, but a weak production.
Dance is fashionable these days. This is not always the case.
The drama After You leaves two impressions. Too stretched scenes, too unambiguous the main character, too mixed real art with the show (the scene with a "parody" on "Let them talk"). It was supposed to be tragic, a kind of peak of broken fate, and for some reason became awkward. For naturalism, it was absolutely not necessary to make a scene with the likeness of “Let them talk” and its lead.
The film is aimed at lovers of slow movies. No dynamic. We are invited to watch the last days of a rude, cynical, but very talented dancer who seems not to know what will remain after him. One can involuntarily recall the words of his character from another series when he says to his American wife (I think without titles or names it is clear what this is about): 'Dance. Is it art? You die and everyone forgets you. That's fine if they have time to film. And poems are eternal. Ironically, the whole story of the film is built on this line. Is ballet such an incredible art that will conquer not the here and now, but 50 and 100 years from now? I think not. Writers and artists with musicians easier: after them there is something incorruptible that can be reread and revised. And dance requires surprise and, like theater, the participation of the audience. Temnikov understands this, which is why it hurts to leave. It always hurts to fall from the top.
Probably, it was the idea of the director, but the main character turned out too unambiguous. Good or bad is up to the viewer. I like characters with a clear position, because the flurry of “ambiguous” is already enough, but the tragic line of this film does not coincide with the overly arrogant behavior of the hero. For such a person, there should be a bigger drama. But much more than that... So I should have taken it differently. Not measuredly, with long panoramic scenes of the cityscape, but boldly, lively, spontaneously, like the dance itself.
“After you” is a drama with a good idea, a good game by Bezrukov, but a weak production.
5 out of 10
Sergey Bezrukov is absolutely magnetic. You can't take your eyes off. Here he still plays a ballet artist, with all the grace, beautiful gestures, stretch marks. Watching like a miracle bird. This man is our national treasure. Every look, movement of the chin, gait, as he descends the stairs is a work of art.
Alexey Temnikov is a ballet artist, lives in the suburban city of Klin, teaches at his ballet school, heads a network of pharmacies. Twenty years ago, he performed at the Bolshoi Theatre, but after an injury, doctors banned him. To engage in the now fashionable form of fitness - Ballet class - to the teacher in an expensive studio go fashionable wives and spoiled children of local princes. Temnikov has a luxury sports car (it’s funny how he drives it around Moscow yards), a renovated apartment, a housekeeper, a full wallet of bills. He's got it. There's no happiness. Loneliness, cynicism, cruel discipline, diet, daily training. Age-related diseases aggravated by years of dancing. Our hero did not like to protect himself in his youth, so he is still overcome by former ballet girlfriends with children. These women hate him, but money sucks.
Anna Matison could make a romantic melodrama in which our guy would finally meet a normal Russian woman, would work out all his complexes and childhood injuries, and would fry barbecues at sunset, drinking dark unfiltered, but when his wife directs, she can play her husband for everything. So we're watching a tough drama, without sentiment. Unforgiving as fate.
Photomodel Anastasia Bezrukova (born 2004, just the same name) plays the daughter of the main character. Plastic and artistic, like the daughter of Johnny Depp, flashing in the yellow press – Lily-Rose. It is a pity that since 2016 she has not appeared anywhere else. Very nice girl.
In some ways, this movie is a farce. Most actors openly overplay, even crooked. Only those who play ballet are natural. Maybe the author in this way wanted to show that the real for the main character can only be the world of the stage - I don't know. But because of this intentionality, the film does not pull to victory in festival competitions, on the author's film.
'Symphony in Three Movements', which is staged by the main character in the Mariinsky Theatre, is a real ballet for which you can buy tickets. I have a girlfriend, Nadia, who lives in Moscow, but goes to see ballet in St. Petersburg at the Mariinsky Theatre. So distracted from the boring work of a bank lawyer. So, 'Symphony in Three Movements' is a ballet by choreographer Radu Poklitaru to music by Igor Stravinsky. The conductor is Valery Gergiev. It's a modern production. It's original and unconventional. Born just thanks to this film by Anna Mathison, and was included in the repertoire of the Mariinsky Theatre.
Enjoy the symphony of Sergei Bezrukov's play.
After reading the announcement of this film, I thought it would be another failed adaptation of Hollywood movies. Well, it seems that the forgotten and desperate artist is angry at the whole world, but then there is a daughter, thanks to whom he will change, and the ballet, thanks to which he will go down in history, leaving at the height of fame. But we were shown reality - unsightly, not make-up, not rainbow.
People don't change. The main character shows this by his example. All his life he was a cynic, a rude man who believed that since he was a genius, he could do anything. Only the threat of disability and complete helplessness pushes him a little to close and relatives – illegitimate daughter Chiara and the woman carrying his child, whom he “gentlely” calls Vykhukholya. But as soon as there is an opportunity to stage The Ballet - our hero and the trail is frozen. He chooses the ballet, the stage, he wants nothing else and no one else. In the film, the phrase sounds that God punished him – deprived of the most precious and valuable things in life. But, in my opinion, the film proves the opposite: Temnikov deprived himself of everything, he squandered his talent, thinking that there are no prohibitions for him. He's lost in ballet and has no other life. The genius he has endured in himself for twenty years is sharpening him from within and killing him. Even the fact that they learned about his production and decided to bring it to the stage indicates the hero’s mistake – not the will of providence gave him a chance, but a simple theater worker who showed the video to the right person.
The ending of the film is logical and real: for world fame and success, the payback can be too great even for a genius.
Do you think there will be a story about the spiritual rebirth of a stale clerk-dealer and the “unseen” angry at the whole world? Do you think he will learn to love people and be optimistic about the world? No, this is not a Hollywood comedy where everything would be like that. No, it's a Russian drama. And the story about how love or a child made a good person out of a dull misanthrope is being completely deconstructed. So Temnikov will not love life, nor people, nor the rock and roll that his daughter so adores. And what happens, watch the movie. What is this painting about? There are people born for happiness and there are people born for sacrifice. The fact that suppressed passion destroys a person, and released into the wild destroys even faster, but in these moments he lives for real. And the eternal question is, does art exist for man? Or is it an end in itself? Or does it bring people closer to something higher? Among the drawbacks of the picture, I can point out rather strange places camera receptions, inappropriate half-flights with a camera (tea, not a militant was filmed). And, well, from the numerous repertoire of “Splin” could pick up another song, and not the dragged “Romans”, which I also like very much, but not for the first time sounds in the movies. Well, the subject matter is very specific - I am indifferent to ballet, and it would be difficult for me to understand the main character - if it were not for the beautiful play of Sergei Bezrukov. Yes, the film is largely based on it: the hero he turned out bright, charismatic and repulsive at the same time, you admire him and at the same time you want to give him a snout. Alive, in one word. The result: for fans of uncomplicated author's film. An unconventional drama about a creative person. A good, high-quality, smart film, which is sometimes shot in Russia (only for some reason no one knows about them). 8 out of 10 Original
For the first time I saw ' After you' in September 2016 at the festival in Yekaterinburg. I've reviewed it several times. And every time I caught myself thinking that this film does not fit into any traditional framework: it leaves a feeling that the main action does not occur at all on the screen, but somewhere in the depths of consciousness: the smallest details, music, unusual angles, illogical for most films plot twists - all this is intertwined, repeatedly reflected one in another, as if in a mirror maze - and becomes thoughts, feelings, long night conversations with yourself.
I read a lot of reviews on social media. A rare case when such an avalanche of positive, enthusiastic even, comments: we all like to criticize, but hundreds and hundreds & #39; thank you & #39; the authors of the picture, going in a continuous stream, say a lot. Personally, I, unlike many, in this picture hooked not the thought ' what will remain after me?', and how invented the character Alexei Temnikov suddenly got out of the frame of the film and became a real person. Movie characters have a certain logic of development at 99%. At first he is like this, then something happens, relationships with others change, the view of the world changes, and in the end he is a different person. And Temnikov, for all the trouble and incompatibility of character, under the influence of external circumstances does not allow them to change themselves. He's a genius. For him, ballet is most important. More important than people. More important than life. Everything external that seemed to lead to changes in character is discarded, as if it did not exist. Which takes it out of the box '... it's a movie!...' and makes it just incredibly real. Because in our life, it rarely happens, as in the movie.
Especially for those who sincerely believe that Sergey Bezrukov ' has already played all ': look. You haven’t seen it and you won’t see it in any other movie: you can’t do it twice! He opened from another side, completely unknown to the audience. I generally liked the acting ensemble: despite many familiar and favorite names that you can read ' in roles ', there is no such thing on the screen ' cinematography' which has already become somewhat boring on the screens, in exaggerated emotions and ideal angles. Real people who walk the streets and live their lives. This is an ordinary city, ordinary events, familiar life, in which Genius is so uncomfortable. And desperate circumstances are like kicking off a cliff. A fall that turned into a flight: the last flight that gave the chance to finally deploy its wings ... but with no chance of a safe landing.
I couldn’t see this movie as a biography. I rarely watch movies like that, honestly. This is a nice exception.
The story of terrible loneliness, despair, about what professional selfishness does to a person. This looseness bordering on hooliganism, this negligence towards others, what is behind all this? The protagonist ' obsessed' on art, on the fact that dance, every movement should be perfect. He is a brilliant dancer, doomed to a life of disability without movement due to a 20-year injury. What happens after that? What will you remember?
This man is a father. His 13-year-old daughter tries to understand him, she's the only one who doesn't hate him because of his selfishness and popularity.
This is a love story for a man who lived by dancing and tried to learn to love others.
I will say right away that Sergey Bezrukov’s performance in this film is magnificent. This is a new level compared to most of his previous roles. You can see that the artist becomes mature, and in his drawing of this role there is more depth and less desire for rapid popularity. However, playing such a character, you will not become more popular.
The person he plays here is not pleasant. Everyone says he's talented. But there is only hypertrophied pride, malice and disrespect for other people? Is this God's gift?! Hardly. Pushkin said that genius and villainy are incompatible. Yes, there are no great atrocities, but many, thousands of small ones. Only evil words come from his mouth, often unjustly wounding many people. Including those who sincerely love him, and innocent children.
He was forced to leave the ballet due to injury. But here involuntarily the question arises – is this not God’s punishment for his malice and pride, for his unwillingness to understand and accept everyone with whom he interacts in one way or another?
As a result, he gives his life for staging the play of his dreams. But what kind of play is this? Will it be a symbol of Russian ballet as denounced as “dusty museum junk” “Swan Lake” or “Sleeping Beauty”? Definitely not. Another modern theatrical mindset – and nothing more. Received the “Golden Mask”, which has long been an indicator not of the quality of the performance, but of the desire to please the taste of a certain theater party. A party that destroys, not educates, the audience of the sense of beauty. So he who does not love people, in the end, cannot create a high work of art.
These are the thoughts and questions that this film brought to me. Definitely talented. But with a very negative moral character, the main character.
6 out of 10
I’m not going to write a long review, I just want to say that when I saw the film, I had a pleasant feeling that I was seeing a very professional picture. This can be seen from the script, the selection of music, acting and separately I want to note the camera work: with the help of the manner of movement of the camera, the film is even more revealed, and one of the last scenes from the talk show “Let them talk” generally hung in the mind for a long time – so well was selected a number of plans and manner of shooting.
According to the development of the plot, I will immediately warn that at the beginning the film is not very exciting, there is a desire to turn it off, and the hero of Bezrukov causes an unpleasant attitude to himself. But then it disappears, you begin to empathize more and understand the hero.
The film gave me food for thought: is it easy to be a genius among those who do not have a part of such talent, is it easy to be family and friends, and in general the whole environment of such a genius? For on the one hand, what he does is great; but the way he behaves with others is utterly alienating and you clearly think it's a good thing I'm not there with him. On the other hand, the hero has his own logic, everything, how he behaves and how he talks to others, he is real, and not falsehood, hypocrisy or scum. He simply does not depend on someone else’s opinion, does not seek to somehow get out of a conflict situation with a human face, rather even causes these situations. But perhaps this is why he discovered his talent, because public opinion always destroys geniuses. This is the main character conveyed in his production "Symphony in Three Movements".
Undoubtedly, the film will suit fans of Bezrukov’s work and ballet, as well as those who thought about their individuality and talent, their place in the world and what you want to leave behind.
10 out of 10
Russia in this film is beautiful - art, intelligentsia, music, ballet, architecture. The film, like life - sad and funny, boring and funny.
Alexei Temnikov despised ignorance and everyday life. He was lonely because he didn't meet people like himself. His outlet was art, because there are no lies. I’d like to believe it, but there’s another side to his personality.
He spent the last 20 years as a disabled man – his own ballet studio, where students do not aspire to ballet, a suspended personal life, a business in which he did not understand anything and did not participate, friends without his attention and love. He did not live, but as if waiting for the moment for his birth, for which he did not have the spirit and strength. Cynicism, anger and rudeness were directed not at the world around him, but at himself. He was angry at his impotence and ... ignorance.
"And that's how many people live." Everything seems to be nothing, but suddenly a 12-year-old daughter appears, and Bezrukov is ready to act and change his life. The daughter became a guide or beacon in his life. They immediately formed an invisible bond. She thought she was just sorry for him.
Apparently, for years he was preparing his own ballet production, but did not dare to apply. But when doctors confirmed his possible paralysis six months later, he immediately went to the Bolshoi Theatre. Wheelchair or final dance?
His dance was very interesting and symbolic, he died in a jump and as if jumped into another world.
You don’t have to wait for circumstances to become desperate. To conquer yourself and realize what you dream of is all you have to leave behind. Or at least help those who are on this path and do not have enough strength for the last breakthrough, as Temnikov helped the employee of the Bolshoi Theater in the application for staging his ballet.
Thanks for the movie!
Absolute genius is always opposed to mediocrity. ' After You ' built on the contrast between the two. This, in my opinion, is the central problem of the film.
Genius is admired or hated. Sometimes both at the same time. But few people realize that genius is not free. After all, along with the genius, an idea is born that he will serve all his life. The idea inspires the genius and at the same time binds him hand and foot. Genius does not belong to itself, it belongs to an idea. He will give her friends, family, health and ultimately life.
And it is this key message that is conveyed in the film clearly and clearly. Every scene is subordinated to her. There is no doubt that the director Anna Matison and Sergey Bezrukov tried to convey to the audience. Impeccably and truthfully shows the image of a man inside who has an ocean. That's just the body of the brilliant ballet dancer Alexei Temnikov after the injury became a prison for him, from which you can not escape.
And all that torments a genius, enshrined in his own body, what remains after him? Wife, children, apartment, business? No, to all this Alexey Temnikov says: 'Fuck you!' Because it's secondary or doesn't matter at all.
Throughout the film, it becomes clear that there will be no abandonment of the great goal of staging a triumphal ballet. There's only going to be movement to the main thing. Overcoming everything. Even death if necessary.
Questions and perplexities arise only at the end of the film. Somehow inorganically, in my opinion, the documentary fit in, and ' Let them talk' too. This smeared the finale, and with it the whole impression of the film.
7 out of 10
Only desperate people can do anything. And Bezrukov.
It’s a powerful film worth taking time for. Those are the thoughts that come up when you see the credits after this movie. And later, I realized why this movie won’t be in our country.
The film has a rather non-trivial script and the film has Bezrukov. Bezrukov who can alone sometimes pull out a whole series or movie. And here he gets the role of a brilliant ballet artist in the past Temnikov, in the current - a complete cynic without family, faith and love. And Bezrukov is doing great. At the beginning of the plot, the main character causes mixed feelings: impudence, rudeness, rudeness... all this does not contribute to love at first sight, but with the development of the plot we see another Temnikov. A lonely man who is proud of his loneliness. He does not betray himself, he tells the truth all the time, he is absolutely confident not only in his movements on stage, but in every movement in life, in every action. A kind of ideal of a talented person, it is no secret that talented people are mostly lonely, and here we show this pure talent, albeit in their unsightly format. And what seemed to be unpleasant, to cause some form of disgust, on the contrary attracts. And you begin to empathize with him, as an athlete for whom you support in competitions, you are imbued with his thoughts, ideas and views. It does not matter that he is completely wrong in understanding the majority, it does not matter that he chooses the wrong truths to which we are accustomed. It is important that he voices to us the truth about which we have long forgotten, banal, but no less important from this (in general, there is a feeling that the quotes of the film will definitely disperse). Temnikov’s hero can cause different emotions than the film and is good, but one thing remains for everyone – respect.
And here we go. The weaknesses of the film begin. Like most failed films in which Bezrukov starred, the main problem remains the cast. It’s like every new producer expects the movie to come out on it alone. And we see a completely failed environment from which there is absolutely no one to distinguish. There is only one main character, and all those who were supposed to be his assistants fell, in the feeling, not even on secondary, but on third-rate roles, where it is impossible to see them. It is worth highlighting only that the same surname of Sergei, Anastasia Bezrukov, who played Temnikov’s daughter, whom he had not seen for many years. And the diagnosis that her father pronounces after 2 minutes of watching the dance is the best suited for her performance in the film - beautiful, but not technically equipped ... sorry. Anstasia is undeniably beautiful, but she can not take the acting game yet, and against the background of a famous actor and a hero confident in his genius - completely disappears and dissolves, although the idea should be close.
A few words about the director of the film, Anna Mathison. In my opinion, the screenwriter Anna Mathison won the director. The film turns out to be torn, no you understand what is going on and why, you catch the connection, but still catch yourself thinking that some parts of the film are among themselves ' scleins' very clumsy, one seems to break off, and after it begins the other. And again, the weak performance of the actors is always partly the fault of the director, who could not squeeze more.
We end up with a movie that misses everything. It is not clear for whom this film was shot. First, the universal dislike of Bezrukov has not gone away, and it is difficult to blame people. The trouble is that no matter how good the actor was, people’s eyes are blurred. And if yesterday you brilliantly played a killer maniac, then no matter how brilliantly the romance played today, yesterday’s viewer will not see him and will remain dissatisfied. And the actor continues to act tomorrow, the day after tomorrow and so on. So when you look at this picture, at a certain point it seems that you are looking only at the annoyed Bezrukov with a damn correct posture and a chin up. You say to yourself: ' Overplays! Again!!' and then you look around and you realize it's the rest of us who don't finish it, and how! And he carefully keeps his bar and squeezes everything out of himself. And this is the second problem of the picture - a weak cast, which I wrote about above. And it will not attract extra viewers either. And perhaps the most important thing is ballet. And a man in ballet! It is so customary in our country that we are proud of our ballet, but we do not go to it, and we send men from ballet, in absentia, to the category of minorities. It turns out paradoxically, given the stereotypes of the whole world, that ballet is one of the main products of Russia, it turns out that in Russia itself ballet is an art for gourmets, and a film about ballet and at all. In addition, the most interesting thing is that by the end of the film you realize that suddenly the film is more for men! It’s not about ballet at all, it’s about a person, about talent and what this talent does with fate. Women will not accept the image and thoughts of Temnikov, perhaps they will understand, but they will not accept. He is absolutely terrible from the moral point of view of women, and men just find in him a kind of romanticism of a lonely strong man: ' I am against the whole world, I am a strong misunderstood, rejected, the best' It’s hard to imagine how men would choose to watch this movie. And then there is another question to the creators, why not transfer the whole story to the plane of sports? Yes, an individual sport, but specifically a sport. Absolutely nothing would have changed, but the audience and the main interest in the film and the problem would have been much greater. But the subjunctive mood of any story does not know.
Who's watching? Ballet lovers, Bezrukov lovers, those who do not understand what pure talent and infinite faith in their peculiarity lead to. I don't think men see their wives.
Alexey Temnikov is a genius bolero. He challenged the world - its stereotypes, people and art. He hates Chopin, he doesn’t like Swan Lake, and he doesn’t consider Spleen to be music at all. The character of Temnikov is clearly drawn. Each of his actions is justified, under each word there is a cause, that is, his obstinacy and arrogance are not taken from the air, they were generated by a certain event chain. The audience loves heroes like that. Bravo Maestro Bezrukov! You did an amazing job! And once again showed us who is the best Russian actor! A great applause for you!
The trailer promised a plot tied to the conflict of fathers and children. If it were, one viewer would be disappointed. The hero begins to communicate with his twelve-year-old daughter not in order to come together to a new life discovery. The heroine is given to us to show Temnikov from all sides. That is, by the end of the picture, it does not change the character of the hero, which is very happy, because this plot move has long become a banality.
To be honest, I am surprised that After You did not receive the enthusiastic praise of the audience. The picture is perfect from all sides. After the trailer for a moment it seemed that Chiara, performed by Anastasia Bezrukova (she, by the way, is the same name), a weak game will sink the film, but no. He and Sergey looked very harmonious on the screen.
In the picture there is no “and so it will go”, everything is thought out in detail, the director showed what she wanted to show, namely the mystery of the ballet. The quality of work is captured visually from the first minutes. A low bow to the cameraman. For a long time on the screens of our cinema did not work with such a camera approach. Doubles last longer than usual, the amazing views of Moscow and St. Petersburg are striking. Serge Otrepiev is the name of the masters of his craft. In his track record, there are not many films, judging by the Film Search "After You" was the first serious work, but he proved himself at the highest level.
"After You" is shot in the best Russian traditions - a film about the personality, about the vicissitudes of fate. Characters do not do stupid things, everything is justified, everything is right. The eye is not irritated by the squalid views of the Russian hinterlands, the scenery is high-quality and expensive. In some moments of the film you fall in love, from some goosebumps run over the head, in other cases you want to cry. Drama has become a worthy domestic product. Strong, beautiful, quality.
Ballet as a real literary work takes tribute with blood. Either you pluck your soul out for it and die, or you won't be a genius and create anything worthwhile.
And life is so temptingly sweet. Even geniuses. Here is your petty-bourgeois happiness - already an adult daughter, here is a ready-made son. Well, yes, there will be a wheelchair, so there will be a chicken that will give birth to a son, a wheelchair will roll with you, at the same time will love. Chicken, soft, laaasque, good-natured, stupid, stupid, foldable. Silence, stroller, memories, natural pasta. But no wings, the chicken will eat them. He spits on the feather, no matter what you worry, all for you.
There are two ways out - either to get drunk and stupid, or once, again, but take off. Yes, in the last, not in the extreme, namely in one way to fly. But forever to put the seal - lived for a reason, left beautifully and left a memory.
In one famous series, this choice was faced by a physicist. And he decided to become stupid, drank a special mixture and remained stupid. But petty-bourgeois happiness - wife, chicken, everything is fine and calm.
It's hard to take off. It's almost impossible without wings. You should. Otherwise there will be no literature, ballet, paintings. Because the average always lulls, but will not penetrate. Everything great is death, the death of the one who splashed out all burned out. Behind the Dead Souls is Gogol, who has been torn to the bottom, behind the Master and Margarita, the dried Bulgakov, behind the prophetic verses of Pushkin, the unhappy in his personal life, the restless spirit of the poet. Art, yes, takes life. But whether it is worth it is not a question, this statement is certainly worth it.
10 out of 10
Still 'After You' is an amazing film. A few months ago, to the question put in the title of the review, I would most likely have answered in the negative. Yes, as a child I was at ballets 'The Nutcracker' and 'Swan Lake' but I cannot say that those performances made any lasting impression on me. Yes, great music, legendary productions... You understand all this in your mind, but in your heart. The heart beats smoothly and steadily.
And here's the movie ' After You' You look at the picture and you realize that there are some tectonic shifts in your soul. You see that ballet art is the temple on the altar of which the hero in the brilliant performance of Sergei Bezrukov, without hesitation, sacrificed himself. Resolutely abandoning parents, children, well-being and life itself. You see it and you understand that it was impossible to do otherwise!
It seems to me that this film should be shown to high school students in order to temper the character of young people, to give an attitude that you need to fight for your dream, make sacrifices, but achieve your goal without betraying it. In order not to feel like Salieri, buried inside Mozart. Temnikov made his move, maybe late, but he made it and won.
Thank you to Sergey Bezrukov for this, in a good sense, crazy job, for every minute of his stay. Thanks to Anna Mathison for the directorial incarnation and the script (together with the co-author) idea of the film. ' After you' I definitely want to review ' listen ' many times, which has not happened to me for a long time. And yes, I love ballet now.
While watching this movie, I had a sharp déjà vu. I just saw it somewhere. Uncomfortable, prickly, irreconcilable and unpleasant in communication genius, with a broken closed soul, to which the former mistress drags a teenage daughter along with the result of a paternity test. Expelled from his creative territory and considered in decent society persona non grata. Purposeful, knowing exactly what he wants to achieve. Yeah, it was all in Steve Jobs. One difference: Jobs is an intellectual, and Alexei Temnikov, the hero of Sergei Bezrukov, is a super-emotional former ballet artist, and now a choreography teacher in the Moscow region. In principle, the idea is the same, only implemented differently. Well, in "Jobs" the illness of the protagonist is left behind, and here she is in the center of the plot - left from the ballet, although remaining in his shadow Temnikov learns from doctors that very soon he is waiting for complete disability and at the limit of possibilities is preparing to stage his own ballet to leave something behind. The only person who does not understand him, but accepts him, is his new daughter.
Unfortunately, in the Russian film, the script was pumped up, a lot of secondary, sometimes a sense of twitching. and the picture itself is knocked out of the general range of Russian cinema only by Bezrukov's play and filigree finale (not the whole scene, but the choreographic part: Temnikov's dance in the television studio and subsequent excerpts from the ballet on the Mariinka stage) - for him the film crew respect. Well, it would be unfair not to mention the interesting camera work of Serzh Otrepyev - as far as I understand, in art cinema this is his debut.
The lead actor Sergey Bezrukov, who only sneezed for inability to reveal the character of his character, in this film got to the point: elegant, arrogant, uncomfortable, with a straight back, stretched nerves, stingy on the external expression of feelings. Even a great enemy will not find fault.
In general, the film is about creativity. About the talent, which is sometimes unbearable to be near, but which changes the world.
7 out of 10
I finally saw a movie this year that I really enjoyed. Someone might disagree and throw a stone at me, but I’ll say it’s a great movie. I’ve been waiting for him for a long time and I really wanted to see him, so I took the viewing and viewing seriously. From the first minutes, the film, like a huge wave, covers with his head. A powerful start with excellent visual transitions. Each scene is like a separate short film, which you want to repeatedly review and enjoy. What the camera does is a song! There is not a single boring and passing frame. The camera seems to dance, play with the viewer, tease him and encourage him. It's really great and great! There is a lot of classical and modern music in the film, which makes me very happy. Most of the scenes in the film, it is an emotional explosion from which you come to a real delight. I won’t say that the most talented Sergey Bezrukov drags the whole film behind him. Nope. In the film, all the characters are emotionally strong. Sergey only raises the degree and brings it to the limit. Of course, many people sneer at Bezrukov and joke behind his back, but I will say that for me he is a genius actor and deserves the highest praise. And with this film, he once again showed us his skill and unattainable level of acting talent. This film echoes several genres and trends at once: comedy, and drama, feature film and reconstruction, docudrama and frames of this ballet. So I’m really excited and I’m going to watch the movie again. I recommend and urge everyone, advise and ask! Watch a movie, watch a good movie! Enjoy it all!! !
“To do something, one must be either born desperate, or circumstances must become desperate.”
A drama with an ironic smile, a sad one... with so much regret and selfishness that you burn yourself from the inside out. For what? For who? For me. Finish, ignite, burn and be reborn.
The image of a closed, brilliant, full of bile and sarcasm, a proud and lonely Black Swan in a faded mothball swan lake of mediocres.
“I am not a young Baryshnikov. I am a young Temnikov” (c). Soaring like Icarus, the hero almost reached his Sun, his peak: the young genius of ballet conquers the scenes of theaters around the world with a victorious march. Fate-villain broke it like a hurricane branch, not allowing you to reach the heights of the absolute genius of dance. Trauma, the depths of the Wedge, the routine of the choreographer in the school named after Himself.
But here’s Alexei Temnikov’s life doing the reverse: meet – this is your daughter, Chiara. She's 12, she's you, apple from an apple tree. The story does not reveal this character. The relationship between the majestic outcast and his daughter is too wooden, they were not given oxygen, no idea. It seems that we are about to see how the young lady shows her talent in ballet, the happy face of her father; the crack of love and goodness in the stone heart of Temnikov, BUT! ... no. Father’s love = sarcasm, and monologues about the modern generation of youth, raised only on the “tops” and making false conclusions about everything that they caught, splashing only on the surface of knowledge. The plot line and the relationship between father and daughter does not give any turns, just a smooth line; like the “asphalt” that is laid in snowy weather – everything crumbles and turns into a complete mush by the end of the film.
What, in principle, the movie is about. After watching the trailer, I came to a quick conclusion: the dancer will try to be a caring father, combining a misunderstood genius and a fading ballet star.
So what do we see when we look at it? Talent so audacious, so aggressive, boorish, lonely; beaten but not broken. The man expressed all his emotions in the dance; the trauma... And then what? You see, I saw in the story the hero of the Armless: a young, wild, free, elegant beast that rushed swiftly and gracefully across the prairie scenes; surprising, conquering and making the audience fall in love with himself. And now imagine when such a “beast” is locked in a cage. Throw in an aviary to ordinary dogs. Everyone knows who he was. They remember his greatness, but now he only wanders among the incompetents, grieves rudely and maliciously, expresses all his accumulated inner pain, showing “teeth” to others.
Oh, he did, though he did. In the life of Alexei Temnikov 2 women: two mothers of his children. Why did not let the events of that age, his youth, why did he abandon his first love? Why did you decide to love again?
Characters of the second plan, like mannequins on the carousel, now appear, then disappear behind the scenes. Characters are not disclosed, as if other actors were not needed in this film.
A film about one man, one genius. In the script it was necessary to “let in” other people, of course, in a different way. But, even if this is my own opinion, all the actors and their characters, against the background of the hero Bezruky, were put in the film in such a light that they are only the background, far, far swaying trees; while in the foreground we see how the cold wind with its dance freezes and breaks into small fragments the incompetence of this world. Without leaving anything behind...
It swept, took off, fell... He got up on one knee, made a jerk and left his mark in the sky. Genius, loner, hum, selfish, rogue, talent, genius... One of them, one in a billion. What will be left of you? .
Each of us at least once in his life asked the question: “What will remain on Earth after me?” No, well, I built a house / bought an apartment, planted some fruit and berry bushes in the country, gave birth to a child, in the end. All this, of course, is great, but not that, because all this is forgiven, sooner or later, perishable. What's left of me? Director and screenwriter Anna Mathison is at a point in her life when this existential question is beginning to come to mind more and more often. Anna gave him a very ambiguous answer with the film “After You”, in which her husband, Sergey Bezrukov, played.
For twenty years, the brilliant bolero Alexei Temnikov was forced to leave the ballet scene forever due to a spinal injury incompatible with his future career. Now Alexey, who lives in a suburban town, owns his own network of pharmacies, heads a sports school named after himself, watching with contempt for small incompetents, and dreams of putting his own ballet to the music of Stravinsky on the big stage. Routine examination in the clinic makes its own adjustments to the life plans of the hero - any of his careless movement threatens at best with paralysis of the lower limbs. However, Alexei does not change his dream, even if she kills him.
Only the lazy did not compare Matison’s film with Pavel Lungin’s “Lady of the Peak”, with which I, by the way, do not really agree – with all due respect to Lungin’s creation, Matison turns out to be deeper and thinner than his colleague in the director’s department. Anna’s film once again reveals the theme of the difficult relationship of the creative bohemian with his own work, but in nervous tears it is closer rather to Birdman Inniarit or Barry Levinson’s Humiliation. The hero of Bezrukov from the first frames causes rejection by his snobbery and squalidness - he does not hesitate in expressions with either former colleagues, nor with parents, nor with a teenage daughter, nor even with casual passers-by. However, false snobbery and squalidness are only a mask behind which a fragile and vulnerable creative nature hides, unable to tolerate mediocrity, which imagines itself as gifted, and in another way vent the passions boiling inside it. And the way Bezrukov pours on the viewer the pain of the hero, driven for decades into his chest, in his ballet, makes you remember that Sergey is a genius actor and forget about his not very successful roles in recent years. His brilliant play makes you close your eyes to some of the miscalculations of Matison as a director - Anna is so flirting with numerous shooting techniques that he does not notice that the film could objectively be twenty minutes shorter - I'm about a fictional TV program about Temnikov, which is extremely ridiculously glued to the finale of the film, about postcard views of night Moscow and St. Petersburg, which do not carry any semantic load for the film, and Andrei Malakhov, who in fact is not Andrei Malakhov. However, I repeat, if you love movies about underrated geniuses and believe that everything in this world is perishable, except for art, Bezrukov’s brilliant acting performance will make you forget about the directorial flaws of Anna Mathison and more than enjoy her film.
6 out of 10.
“Love is a run over obstacles to death.”
(Rudolph Nureyev)
Mirrors and a driven ballerina, rushing among them to the song of the group Spleen "It's the opposite." And then the sharp music of Igor Stravinsky from “Sacred Spring”.
The film is full of music to the brim. This invisible connection between ballet and music is clearly traced here, as two types of arts that coexist only in pairs. This film is not about music or even ballet. It is about a much more serious art - the art of living a worthy person.
The main character enters a dance class, where girls of five years are engaged in ballet. “Do any of you want to be a ballerina? Professionally practice ballet.” The answer is silence. After a while, the main character will dissolve all classes in his school.
Getting acquainted with the main character of the film Alexei Temnikov performed by Sergei Bezrukov is exciting and fascinating at the same time. He is a tough man who does not recognize the vulgarity of human stupidity, denies the values of family and desperately wants to somehow return to the world of ballet. Alexey was once a great ballet artist. Genius. He soloed in the best productions, won the attention of the Western press. But the tarnished reputation due to strange videos that got on the Internet, a serious injury - and the career of a brilliant artist came to an end. And 20 years after the injury, Alexey learns that soon due to a disease associated with a spinal injury, he will be confined to a wheelchair.
What's left of Alexei? There was an unspoken genius left. He's been sitting inside for 20 years and humiliating what was once a great ballet artist. There is a body that no longer defies orders. There is still a desire to educate brilliant dancers, but it is crowned by failure - Temnikov understands that all students of his dance school are either talentless, lazy, or those who were forcibly brought by their parents.
All this, coupled with an acute sense of the need for beauty, makes Alexei what he eventually becomes – a tough, sharp person who does not take anyone into his life.
I have been waiting for this film because the world of ballet and high art has always interested me most. In the talent of Sergei Bezrukov, I did not doubt, although he does not always choose the role successfully, so his personality is controversial. But this painting was a success. Bezrukov here is a piece of steel that turns into a plastic material, barely hearing music. The movement of the body from a slightly upturned nose to a clearly detached foot, a slight stutter - and you already forget all the previous successful and failed roles of Sergei Vitalyevich. This is a ballet dancer. The artist is great, but broken and sick.
In order to show how deep the pain of the protagonist, in the narrative appears 12-year-old Chiara, the daughter of Temnikov from the ballerina, with whom he once had an affair. Chiara is a young girl who invariably reaches for the beautiful (apparently, so as not to yield to talented parents), but does not understand at all.
The hero of Bezrukov says a very important thing, and although he turns it to the provincials, it is now characteristic of very many, and does not depend on the place of birth - there are a huge number of people who, wanting not to seem stupid and ignorant, grab the tops of everything in a row, without digging deeper.
What comes out of this? From this comes the Wikipedia generation, which knows everything in the world in 3 words, but ask to say the 4th and the generation system will freeze.
What is it like for a person who truly loves art, authentic art, real, eternally alive, to live in the environment of such people?
Many people call the hero Bezrukov an egotist who cares only about himself. But I understand. But I understand. I understand that I am happy that I have not yet reached that terrible boundary, when bewilderment from these people turns into hatred for them.
This movie is about depression. The worst depression inside a person. When everything that surrounds you – you do not need, and everything that is inside you – no longer need anyone around you.
It's a film about emptiness. About the emptiness of human souls, about the shells that hide this emptiness.
A movie about pain. A pain that cannot be hidden, that oozes through a stone face. About the pain that passes only when the fingers begin to slide smoothly through the air, and the body again begins to move in continuous motion to the eternal music of classics. The pain disappears when it comes into contact with the eternal. With art or death.
A film about fearlessness. It's about how, by taking off the shell and becoming a real hypocrisy-denier, telling the truth to your face, you end up alone and useless. Because society doesn't need the truth. A society that knows three words about everything in the world, has already adopted this eternal lie into its way of life, which is difficult to stand in front of a mirror and tell itself honestly that little has been achieved, but much has been said.
The hero of Sergei Bezrukov is tormented by the question of what he will leave behind. He wants to do a ballet show. Because he was not afraid to stand by the mirror, spread his arms wide and shout to his daughter: “Look, here I am – a genius who will leave nothing behind.”
What could be worse for a genius? The genius that was forgotten immediately after death did not exist in the world. Therefore, for a genius, the main goal of life is to achieve fame and national recognition. If not in life, then after death. The hero of Bezrukov, who learned about his terrible diagnosis, about the terms that the doctors gave him, clings to the remains of days to create what will remain after him.
But there is also the flip side of this beautiful plan - there is a bad reputation, following on the heels, there are media, leading dirty games, just to dig something more interesting and all art is turned into a set of likes and reposts. We are catching up with the Bolshoi Theatre not people, but traffic. Will the brilliant dancer, 20 years later, be able to rise on the stage of the Mariinsky Theater after all that happened to him and face a generation of new people who want to see not a brilliant artist, but someone who fell drunk on the stage 20 years ago, and now dances again?
The end of the film was controversial. Watching him was unpleasant. But nevertheless, I give credit to this ending, because that's what it would be like. This is how it usually happens – when geniuses leave, journalists come, friends appear, and everyone says many false words that can no longer be denied or ignored.
This is exactly what it would be like.
The first half hour of the movie was not bad. Not good, but quite curious, not bad. And then... It's stretched and boring. I am glad that this director did not succumb to the temptation to make his version of Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, as Pavel Lungin and several others have already done. It's not about obsession. This film is a kind of comedy with an admixture of drama. So do not expect a full immersion in the tape. If you decide to watch, always keep in your head the thought “well, it’s comedy”, then perhaps you will not be so critical of ridiculous, unrealistic situations, as well as rather typical characters, which is the main character (how many have you seen films about an arrogant man? 10? 50? 100?), and characters with poor motivation (his daughter).
With the logic on, this movie is difficult to watch, it becomes boring. But if at the top of your perception is not rational thinking, but emotional, then maybe you will like this tape. I started watching the film with no enthusiasm, just wanted to get acquainted with a potentially good work of Russian cinema and I was disappointed. Not to say that the film is not at all bad... it’s just not good enough to hold interest, not to seem infinitely long.
P.S.
Appeal to the directors: understand, the use of art themes: opera, ballet, theater, music and so on does not automatically make a film cool. Talent makes a good movie. Black Swan is one of many good Aronofsky films. He did not become famous because of this film. It was not the themes of the films that helped him become famous, but his talent in their implementation.
In fact, I watched this film on the advice of a respected radio host with a radio station I respect. He said that this role of Bezrukov is one of the best after Sasha Bely. And I became interested. I was interested because I don’t think Bezrukov is a good actor. I think he's a good manipulator. And his best role, in my opinion, was in Azazel, because I think he played part of himself there. Well, organically. But not that now. With the role of Temnikov, he still coped with 4-.
I watched "After You" without stopping and pauses, which is not often the case lately. I didn't want to turn it off. Until then. In fact, I didn't want to. I just wanted the movie to end. It feels weird. For the first two-thirds of the film, I would recommend it to my friends. But internal discontent with the visible grew, and in the end it became clear that no, I will not. And here's why.
He smells of amateurism. Everything.
And it manifests itself in many ways. The picture for an alleged drama of supposed scale is too bright. There you can put indistinct humor of secondary characters. Why is he here? And in such a primitive way? Everyday moments are well shown, there are several accurate everyday wisdoms, thoughts and situations, but they are already obvious. The budgets of the whole film are at least strange. Although, in principle, it was possible to direct the narrative in a reasonable way. But -- no. The closer to the end, the more absurd. Abandoned characters are the sea. The inefficiencies, too. And, sorry, what about Malakhov? What was that cartoon? How do you take that? If you didn’t agree or he couldn’t / didn’t want to, why push “comrade” close-up? Why try to portray his voice very clumsy? Do you use the original name of the program? But the MC of the Mariinsky enters the frame with a smile to the ears. Well, well.
There was no drama or proper intensity. You are waiting for him, in the middle as if he were near. But the end kills all the little good that came before. And do not save any philosophical thoughts, tips and concepts. The format of the series from the second button, or even a clip.
This is the question that every adult has asked himself at least once in his life. There are people who constantly and all their lives try to leave at least some trace in the history of mankind.
Progress has made it possible for almost everyone today to make a statement, but how long will that memory last? Only a few are allowed to perpetuate themselves in the history of mankind. These ' units ' are the geniuses of our time.
The film ' After You' with Sergey Bezrukov in the title role tells us the story of a modern, forgotten genius during life. The most talented game of the protagonist captures from the first minutes of the film and holds the brand to the last frames. All the details of the image of the main character, up to the stutter played by Bezrukov easily and effortlessly, as well as the whole film does not let you get bored for a minute.
The frames of the film, like the pages of a book, are leafed through, forcing the viewer to delve into the tragic story of the life of a ballet dancer who once soared as rapidly as he then fell down.
Having learned his disappointing diagnosis, Temnikov desperately tries to leave his mark on the history of art. Trying on the life of an average person, he realizes that children, wives, relatives are not the mark he would like to leave. Genius is usually alone and not understood. For the viewer to see your talent, you must die.
In some places a very funny, dramatic film, permeated with a tough, proud, moderately cynical and purposeful character of the main character.
The story of how Sergey Bezrukov went to the art house.
If we go back to the history of popularity of Sergei Bezrukov, then we will definitely turn to ' cult' TV series ' Brigade'. The story of young bandits, thieves’ romance, shooting, chases and thousands of crippled lives of real-life boys who saw Sasha Bely in the mirror as friends of Kos and the Bee and for decades crippled the lives of themselves and others.
Popularity ' Bely' fell on the shoulders of Sergei Bezrukov heavy burden and he as far as possible and far away from popular cinema, choosing the role of neither hunter, but the victim of fate / himself.
This affected both the hobbies of Bezrukov himself and the themes of the films. Ballet, music, literature. Now it's not the guns, but the chase interests him. And I think that’s great.
As for the film itself:
The script is beautiful, the dialogues are wonderful and interesting. Fine humor, wordplay. Everybody's up.
You can talk about the acting of Sergey for a long time, or you can just keep quiet, realizing that everyone already knows everything.
Excellent camera work with beautiful city plans, a dynamic camera and juicy shots.
Cons:
1. There are a lot of people in the world that are worse than Temnikov, but it’s usually not so obvious. It takes time and circumstances for people to open their face to the world, show rotten soul or anger. Temnikov with all his viom 24/7 wants to show others what kind of crap he is and does not miss a single case for the whole film, so as not to slander / call / mock. I think this behavior is not realistic, and the character is a little hypertrophied.
2. Sergei Bezrukov's daughter. A beautiful girl, but still an inept actress. Well, great people rarely have children who are talented in that area (in the case of Bondarchuk, this observation has been working for two generations).
Bottom line:
The film is beautiful and powerful, though not without flaws.
But it will definitely be included in my collection of favorite domestic paintings.
8 out of 10
Bezrukov is not on pointe, or the story is not about ballet
A couple of weeks ago, an interesting phrase was said: ' Name one of our films that would be worthy of attention' I agree, there are few really good pictures.
As has been said before, 'After You' is a story about a man. Let me tell you a story about a man in the art world. The film is true from beginning to end. Two different worlds: the human world and the rest of life. It is in this sense that it is almost impossible to break into this inner world. A life deprived of the opportunity to do your own thing, in which you feel like your own person 100%. Not 70, 90, but exactly where you want to invest, what is natural, for which you do not need to step on your throat to do (even if this case is 70% successful).
This story is revealed before us. The hero was essentially thrown out of his world. 20 years of hiatus, the circumstances, the understanding that this is the end, when you need to do something (and you know what exactly). Could it have been different? Could Temnikov stay in the ballet world and continue to work in a different role? Maybe. But not more than yes. The truth of life of creative people and the sphere of art. First you are a genius, hope for a brilliant future, career, success, fame, then at some point it all comes to an end. Inevitably. Anyway. It can be quiet, it can be peaceful, it can be as shown in the film. Trauma, scandal, and the end. You become used material, just your own shadow. Very few people can escape from this state. Is that cowardice? Nope. In this situation, it can be pride, resentment at the injustice of the world, but the main thing from my point of view is the understanding that now is not the place and not the time. Ballet, which arose 20 years later, is an experience of life, it is the nurturing of an idea, its comprehension. If he stayed in the theater for all these years, he would probably be the most ordinary person. The system would take its own, so the system would. This very idea, which was born all this time and shot at one moment, would spread over a huge period of time. We have to leave on time. Choose an even better time to return.
Why do we say that the sphere of art and ballet is exactly the work of Temnikov’s life? This line is traced from the beginning. From that injury. It's more important. All the same to yourself, your state, but you can not cancel, you can not interrupt. The show, in this case, is what is most important. And to the end. Until the last scene, the last dance.'The genius who leaves nothing behind' Not this time. It doesn't matter what happens to you, but the Cause has to live. Everything else - in the background, behind the scenes, darken, does not matter. Strictness and toughness to yourself, demanding to the whole world. Your view of the world. He does not hide it from others, he does not try to be like everyone else. Hence loneliness. 'Fuck you' - attitude to the general mass, which ' grabbed at the top and thinks that has the right to judge' Why do children go to ballet school, but none of them want to associate their lives with ballet? On the one hand, ' they're kids' how can you expect anything from people that age? But on the other hand, it is at this age that fanaticism for the cause is born, the desire to become a person in the future of the profession you have entered. Then the time passes, out of 15-20 people 1-2 remain, who continue this path. What’s the point if it’s not at the beginning? There will be no result, then there is no need to start.
And we cannot say that such a rigid position in life is wrong. Yes, a disdainful attitude towards loved ones, yes, a contemptuous attitude towards most others - these are all negative moments. If you look from a different angle, the position of other people, the phrase ' he does not need anyone but himself ' characterizes the whole relationship of the world to man. But commitment to the Cause ... is worth learning.
Nina said that next week is the last week of rental. What do I do? You can wait for the official DVD for an eternity. Last Sunday, after watching the film in the Biysk cinema, I was both surprised and touched and delighted, so having been released only by two o'clock in the afternoon, an hour twenty before the session, 80 km to the cinema, it was not a question to go or not - to go.
The second viewing in a week, for Nina is the third this month, including the premiere screening in Barvikha, and the film is a bit different each time. It's both my and her feelings. The film seems to change and as it were a little different, as a retelling, but one thing remains - surprise, touching and delight.
Surprising that ' Hero of our time' can be interpreted and played like this. Surprisingly, the script I wrote for S.V. of the film ' pro Altai' has already been played and implemented by 60%. Amazing that Temnikov’s ballet about the picture of the world that I have – my sign on my hand and ' Black Sun' at the end of the film. ..
A touching game of all the actors of the film without exception. It is clear that Sergei Bezrukov can play God and the Devil, and priest and worker. Nastya Nameless, Alena Babenko - daughters of mother! The director of the school of dancing with a girlfriend, a guy with his mother from the administration, Martynov - Lermontov killed ... - All right! Even the unexpected Krystalev. . .
Delight - delight in the theme, game, presentation. The way the material is stitched up, subtle, not vulgar humor, a slight touch of dissidence and barely audible civil protest. . .
I liked everything. That's it. Probably for the first time in my complicated relationship with cinema, especially with Soviet cinema, especially since the last ten years.
I think that the Russian rental will be expectedly low. This is a world-class film and it is American and European distribution that will bring real fame and dividends. 'There are no prophets in their own country'
Thank you to Anna Matison and Timur Ezugbai for 100% getting into my heart and soul! Thank you for the Three Goddesses and for revealing the theme of the simplicity of human existence, no matter how much we complicate and see our lives differently. Thank you for the new hero of our time and for the main question of life: 'What will remain after you?'
10 out of 10
Alexei Temnikov, seemingly successful, wealthy, unflappable and, it seems, self-sufficient person, he has his own business, his own dance school, an expensive car and he is the most famous person in the city. But it's just a mask, inside of him, for twenty years now, there's a pain, a physical and a moral pain that destroyed his career, all his dreams, and that still continues to destroy him from within. This man is strong, listening to the death sentence of doctors, fatal for him, maybe someone else and could come to terms with it, but not Temnikov! It is better not to live at all than as the doctors suggest and strongly recommend. There is no one next to him, he does not let anyone into his life, sympathy will not tolerate, and the pain is hidden so deep that only in the eyes you can read all the horror, lostness and resentment (here, by the way, a separate bow and gratitude to Sergei Bezrukov, who in this role is unrecognizable and irresistible!). Then he asks, “What is left of me?” It is assumed that children are what remain after leaving. And Temnikov has children, a daughter who appeared quite suddenly and, waiting for the birth, a son. And although, behind all the pomp and irony, sometimes there are manifestations of fatherhood and care, children are not the answer to the question. He's a genius, he's an undisputed talent, he lives the ballet, he has to leave something significant behind that people will talk about. And we need to act now, immediately, because there is very little time left. And of course, this path to the creation of history turns out to be thorny, because for those around him he is an arrogant proud man who, because of his ' impudence and stupidity' closed the doors to great art for himself. But desperation will still lead him to the goal, this difficult and outstanding path of genius and reflects the picture.
The film itself is very harmonious. The abundance of classical music is simply fascinating. Pertinent historical inserts and moments in which to read between the lines are admired by the writers and the director. A lot of subtle humor, which is neither vulgar nor ordinary, rather it is not even humor, but sharpness. Because humor now, this is only what you can just “bash” without thinking, and here it is the sharpness that a little hurt and remember. The actors complement each other, no one is lost, every episode, even a minute, is filmed and played magnificently!
Summing up, I want to say that this is a film that you need to think about, both during watching and after it. The picture is immersed in the viewer and immerses itself in itself!