So dirty and real shows Russian life in the provinces, which suggests that the filmed Russophobe. But unlike “Leviathan”, which is dull and hard to watch (and really shot by Russophobe), “How Vitka Garlic drove Leha Styr to the disabled house” looks in one breath.
Casting, music, camera work, staging - everything is at the highest level. You believe the characters! Bandits are scary. It seems so familiar, as if he went to a disco in 1998. Vitka’s wife is just a sample, I advise those who are going to get married before the age of 30 to think about this image. Along the way, the eternal Bulgakov “apartment” question rises – everything is like in life.
If you find fault – I would do a different color grading – the picture goes very yellow. But that's just the grumbling of the photographer. The film is definitely to watch, you will not regret it!
10 out of 10
Russia is not only on the map, but also in the heart.
A long time ago, I have already recorded in my list the debut film of Alexander Hunt called “How Vitka Garlic Drived Leha Styr to the Home of the Disabled”. The first thing that catches your eye is the name. We don’t often hear such long names. It has its plus and minus. The plus is that the title gives a flavor to this picture (after watching it, you will understand what I mean), it personally bribed me for the first time when I did not know anything about the film. And the disadvantage is that people far from cinema, most likely, such a non-standard name will scare away. Let's move on to the movie itself.
I can tell you right away that the picture was good. I’m really excited about this year’s show (though there are very few). Of the film’s flaws, I would only describe the camera. Sometimes she takes such uncomfortable or strange (unfortunately, in a bad way) angles that sometimes you want to close your eyes. Fortunately, there are few such personnel here. It should be understood that the film was shot with technical support from VGIK, so there is no sense to be very picky about this. The plot here is simple - in front of the audience unfolds a classic road movie, where the relationship between father and son is at the forefront. But what then attracts this film? First of all, they're characters. They are painfully colorful, caricatured and even grotesque. They're really interesting to watch. Everyone can see something familiar in them. Secondly, it's music. What surprised me was the selection of Russian music. There's Husky and the Mushroom group, Not Your Business and others. To be honest, I am not a fan of the work of these artists, but here they came like relatives. They also add to what is happening. The most important thing about the film is the atmosphere itself. How amazingly Hunt was able to convey the depths of Russia. This is likely to be understood only by the people of our country, but how understandable! Transmitted to the smallest details: from the key fob of the main character, ending with the characters. It is worth noting the play of actor Eugene Tkachuk, his character is especially memorable.
Before watching the movie, I didn’t expect to like it. I'm glad I was wrong. It is definitely worth seeing this picture in the outgoing year.
"As Vitka Garlic drove Lehu Styr in the home of the disabled"
Perhaps in some parallel universe, the debut film of Alexander Hunt with an unusual title could offend the feelings of orphanages. Already in a very unfavorable light looms the main character of the picture Viktor Chesnokov, who gave the state institution 12 years of life. Garlic is drunk, fights, cheats on his wife and does not raise a young son. And it's nothing - well, with whom it doesn't happen! The most repulsive in the character is the manner of justifying their most vile and sloppy actions by the orphanage past. The young man prefers to move along the path of least resistance and proudly steps on it in a fake Air Max acid color. Using the orphanage as a shield, Garlic relies on ostentatious public compassion, traditionally standing guard over deprived children and the elderly.
When Vitke has the opportunity to inherit his father’s apartment with a bed-trahodrome, to leave the exhausted family and live for his own pleasure, he immediately seizes this opportunity. The case for small: to surrender suddenly appeared paralyzed father in the home of the disabled. Chesnok's father Lech Shtyr is a characteristic criminal who beat the hero's mother with a shovel cutting, and, as usual, left the family early. 'Mother would finally rejoice that he left her, and she climbed into the noose because of this!' - exclaims Vitka frantically and takes up the case, carelessly plunging the crippled relative into the car as I put it. Of course, the path of the heroes to the home of the disabled will not be without action-packed turns and unexpected revelations.
The brilliant play of all actors without exception makes the picture painfully plausible, and the noticeable external similarity of Serebriakov in the role of his father and Tkachuk in the role of his son is a rare directorial find that definitely deserves praise. Separately, I would like to note the episodic, but convincing role of Konstantin Gatsalov, which is indicated in the credits as ' a bandit with a scar'. Everything in Gatsalov's acting - from the burned-out appearance of a recidivist and ending with phrases in the spirit of ' your horses are trumped' - reliably reproduces the image of a typical prison native, most of whose life was spent behind bars. Fierce, cruel, cunning. They do not want to die on the territory of modern Russia. The ties of the past, present and future of our country are too strong.
Can not but draw attention and non-standard for such tapes color correction. The colors here are juicy, lively, leaving no doubt that red, green and yellow are red, green and yellow. The colors would fit well with some superhero comic book adaptation. True, instead of superhero tights and futuristic cars here - tracksuits and breathing incense ' loaf'.
When choosing the soundtrack for the film, the authors did not invent the bicycle. The picture habitually uses the same genre, music for feasts and holidays, adjusted for the age of the main audience. Instead of the beaten 'Leningrad' and Natalie tape abounds with tracks Mushrooms, Peaks and Husky. Extremely understandable rabid Russian rap, which is the soundtrack to modernity and often forms the worldview of teenagers. I must say, the music in the film sounds deliberately loud and unpleasant. Very harmonious with what is happening on the screen. 'Going around Russia, I will not finish / Where is my father's panel '.
Someone will definitely disdain to watch Vitka Garlic. Calls a black woman, shyly hides his eyes and mutters: 'No, we don't live like that. It's not us.' Someone will ignore and say, why look at such a picture, if the abomination gets in real life. Both will be right. As one media outlet likes to repeat in its reviews of sensitive material: if that’s not acceptable to you, check out a gif with cats playing. Fortunately, the life-affirming paintings released this year are more than enough. For those who find painful consolation in the views of such everyday dramas and once again want to make sure how not to live, Vitka Chesnok is an excellent promising debut of a young director who made his own attempt to show how hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens live and act in the Russian province.
- Hello. Who's taking it here?
- Who?
- Disabled.
After watching the movie “How Vitka Garlic Carried Lehu a Stick to the Home of the Disabled,” I just jumped along with the sofa. It's also a debut. I must say it is very successful and deep.
But everything in order.
Passions, I must say, are not boiling jokes. The main idea of the film is Turgenevskaya, namely the theme of fathers and children. Like Ivan, Alexander Hunt tries to unite not only the family, but also entire generations with his work. Bazarov is a nihilist and Vitka also denies all possible authorities. But Bazarov is honored by one single authority – science. And garlic is only the power of money and pleasure.
As we can see, in the film, the institution of the family for Vitka means absolutely nothing. He's spitting on his wife and on the big bill the baby. And those more fallen like snow on the head of his hated father. Parallels of Lehi Shtyr and Turgenevsky Kirsanov can also be drawn. Kirsanov is a master and aristocrat. The hero of Serebrennikov, also belongs to the elite, but already a thief.
But what has changed inside Garlic? What made him stand up for his disabled father, who was ready to kill him a few hours ago? And here the director already goes further, accepting the postulates of Dostoevsky himself: “Man is a secret.” It must be solved, and if you will solve it all your life, do not say that you have lost time; I am engaged in this mystery, for I want to be a man. "
Here, in a sense, you can solve this mystery yourself. Throughout most of the road they are silent. But Hunt gives a voice to the silent Spit. And after all the roughness that happened between them. They still get the necessary dialogue, and more precisely the monologue of the Stick about the childhood of 3 – 4-year-old Garlic. And these words undoubtedly reach the goal, this is evidenced by the infantly naive and sweet smile on Vitka's face. Was there a turning point here that turned the relationship back?
At that moment, Vitka did not realize that the germs of fatherly love had already awakened in his heart. By his act, Garlic completely exposed his purely Russian soul. Introducing us to its two extremes.
I would like to conclude my review with the words of Fyodor Karamazov, the hero of the novel by F. M. Dostoevsky: 'Broad, too wide a person. I WOULD SUMMARY'...
A small provincial town. Vitka Chesnokov works at the waste processing plant. In pauses, he drinks with friends in a single bar, argues with his wife and mother-in-law, and sleeps with a local tangler. One day, a police officer comes to work. And reports that Vitka's father showed up. Vitka is an orphan. He doesn’t want to hear anything until he learns that a paralyzed alcoholic father has an apartment that he will inherit. You just have to take your father to a disabled home, in your funny old Japanese car.
The simplest film, a completely uncomplicated plot. No powerful morals, morals, pathetics. It's just a classy shot. I have not seen the debutant so clearly understood what he wants to shoot, how he wants to shoot it, and had this ' Director' eye. The picture is bright, juicy, brilliantly shows the roads of our vast homeland, the forests through which people travel, and it is unclear whether they will reach, whether they know where they are going and why.
Soundtrack - Huskies, Mushrooms, Pica. Everything that guys like Vitka listen to all over the country, not stupid humor, dynamics. This is a real road Movie, not long, the viewer makes a mini journey together with the heroes, who are perfectly performed by VERY similar externally artists - Alexei Serebriakov and Evgeny Tkachuk. These are the highest-class artists, and once again they have confirmed this.
Here is an example of modern Russian cinema, for which there is no shame.
Unknown to almost anyone film. The director and the cameraman did not shoot anything except a couple of short films. If you do not accidentally stumble upon a trailer, or do not accidentally read (if you are not fond of cinema) an open article in the media, then you can not find out about the film at all.
In our big city, we showed only one cinema, where rare films are played, and one session a day.
Personally, I learned about the film a long time ago, and by a couple of shots it was already clear that this is something not typical for Russian cinema, both in terms of shooting and in terms of plot. Yes, even the title seems to shout: 'I single out the gray mass of uninteresting films!'
Perfectly selected coloring throughout the tape, beautiful landscapes, wonderful shooting, actors, and even Russian music (which, it would seem, should cause rejection, since almost all is popular with ' Clear boys' 2k17-16s) - all causes only pleasant feelings for the eyes and ears.
Probably, this is the same film that you have been waiting for all your life from the Russian manufacturer: about gopniks from the outback and about the men who have served time, but at the same time about travel and real life. A life that is full of difficult choices, difficult fates. But also happiness and fun.
The tragic is skillfully intertwined with the comic. When you watch a movie, 'heaviness' does not hit you in the heart, as, for example, Bykov or Zvyagintsev; for some reason, more good is remembered. Although, in fact, the story about the orphanage Garlic and his disabled father is filled with the weight of broken fates.
Installation and operator work are excellent. It was wonderful to convey the right mood. The picture was pleasantly symmetrical, the hands of the camera-holder never trembled, which can not boast, I am afraid to think, very many of the Russian operators. Apparently, these guys 25 million rubles was enough to buy a tripod.
Heroes are spelled out well, play great, believe everyone. You feel the atmosphere of this life. And it doesn’t feel disgusting, like because of any more Russian TV series with stupid representatives of gop culture, when the writers don’t think to make them even a little positive or brainy. The more primitive and negative, the better. In 'Vitka Garsnock' there is no such thing.
The same Vitka simply experienced not the best childhood, married on the flight and was deprived of love. And the only goal in his life is to borrow an apartment, to quickly escape from the house from the Miger wife & #39; and the mother-in-law who went to Russian talk shows. And during his short journey, he will have to make difficult decisions. Whether this trip has changed it is up to the viewers themselves to decide.
Result
It’s a great movie, but for some reason it’s not promoted at all. Apparently, it is too risky to let in the mass rental of a movie by an unknown director. It will be better to spin dozens of screenings of billions on the budget of dummy, in order to somehow recoup the money wasted. And Vitka was filmed, it seems, just to show off at prestigious film festivals, and show what we can. And then just unobtrusively disperse over the network, well, or on disks. Anyway, and thanks for that, the movie was great.
There's a man. He is a recidivist criminal (this is also indicated by his tattoos: a tiger is a sign of a convinced criminal who refuses to cooperate with the administration in any form; a skull with a dagger and a snake is a thief’s symbol, a tattoo of an authoritative thief, etc.). Of course, a sociopath who doesn’t care about anyone but himself. Alkash, who earned himself alcoholic epilepsy.
Beating wives, abandoning them and children.
Not a single day in his life, this man did not work, did not bring even a tiny benefit to society, but only stole, ' something he ate, drank hard, slept sweetly' sowed trouble and misfortune around. He may have raped and killed.
Attention, question: is such a person worthy of sympathy and forgiveness? Is he worthy of the care of his abandoned children?
Well, if you are a very, very religious Christian, a true saint, or a Pharisee, you probably answer: worthy. Or maybe it is better to think about the victims of this #39; unfortunate', to sympathize with those to whom he crippled life, and honestly admit that the almshouse is still too humane option for such a creature, and it would be much fairer for him to die under the fence, in the forest or at the bottom of the pit, making this world a little cleaner? . .
Huh? What do you think?
It's not a bad movie. Though unpleasant. And, in my opinion, a little old-fashioned – it would be removed at the beginning of zero.
5 out of 10
The long and unusual title of Alexander Hunt’s debut film is already setting you up for the specific sensations of watching. Despite the fact that the energy of the “narrative outside the box” of “Vitka Chesnok” is focused on the eccentricity of the Russian soul, history, nevertheless, lies on the other side of stereotypes about Russia and by its nature is universal. Images of heroes (or antiheroes) are familiar to many, giving rise to the classic “road Movie” without frills. But the trip was much more interesting than you can imagine.
A guy named Victor Chesnok consists of 90% of the show, behind which a person who is not very confident is hiding, and the remaining 10% of the hawthorn concentrate. His main pastime includes hanging out with questionable ladies, fights, sex (of course, without taking off his tracksuit). What else can a young man do in a hopeless town when a dead-end career, a young son and a mistress hang over him? An unexpected turn in his life comes after the return of his father, who is also on his deathbed. The cursed housing issue did not bypass Garlic, so that he, loading his father in a van, went to the disabled house in the hope of getting rid of his relative and get housing.
Unconventional and, at the same time, such a familiar "road Movie" takes place in a realistic Russian outback, the image of which in "Vitka" is served with a great sense of irony and satire. A kind of Russian "Twin Peaks" with grotesque characters without kitsch elements. Nevertheless, one cannot but leave aside the version that Vitka is a subtle joke that mocks the direction of Russian cinema in recent years and the modern concerns of our people.
A significant part of "Garlic" is built on the coincidences and oppositions of two characters - father and son. Two actors (Alexei Serebryakov and Yevgeny Tkachuk) are not only similar in their faces, but also in their habits, characters and gestures. The only thing I didn’t like was Tkachuk’s face frozen in endless ridicule.
In many ways, Vitka is a very stylish film. This is not about the soundtrack, but rather about the presentation of material. The gloomy aesthetics of the adventures of two not pleasant men contrast with bright colors: from a red van to yellow sneakers. The sad reality of the Russian hinterland is somewhat stylized, which is, of course, a gross exaggeration, but allows you to feel the tone of the plot. In my opinion, it is impossible in any case to accuse “Vitka” of the cliché of “black”. This is a very positive movie, no matter what you say.
It wasn't without flaws. First of all, it seems that there was a lot more footage shot than was in the final version of the film. Many scenes are either cut off, or events in them simply do not get their further development. One can, of course, hope that the director in this way wanted to show real life (say, a story with no beginning, middle and end), but the story itself in the film still has a clear logical culmination after arriving at its destination. Secondly, “Vitka” is very unusual. Sometimes it works in addition to the movie, but for the most part just annoying.
Many domestic projects in 2017 are based on a very unpleasant feeling – dislike. In one case we are talking about the opposite of love sensation ("Dislike"), in the other case - about the absence of love ("Strictness"). Vitka Garlic and Leha Shtyr offers its interpretation of dislike in the form of a kind of deep family fatalism, which is felt, on the one hand, natively Russian, and, on the other hand, so real. And, in the end, do not take this review seriously, as well as the film itself. After all, even if we abandon any abstruse interpretations of this film, it still seems to me that in each of us, Russians, there is a little bit of Vitka Garlic or Lekha Shtyr. Not that they gave us anything bad. Shall we go?
7 out of 10
Unexpensed There are at least two types of cinema in which the author tries to convey a serious idea. The first type is, for example, the works of A. P. Zvyagintsev: oppressive scenes, the disgust of the characters, the gloom of the situation, the inability of the characters to talk to each other - all this puts pressure on the viewer with its depression, along the way hinting that if he does not like this movie, he is short-sighted, primitive and, relatively speaking, does not differ from the characters. But I want to say that “How Vitka Garlic took Lech Styr to the disabled house” is clearly of a different type – these are easy-to-understand films that unobtrusively talk to the viewer about life with the help of beautiful scenes both tragic and comic, while neither meaning nor suspense is lost at all. I want to talk about some of the movie’s strengths: 1. The film does not make the viewer feel inferior and lack of intelligence; on the contrary, it is for everyone, regardless of their level of education. At the same time, it is saturated with symbolic and semantic content - from the garbage processing plant where the main character works, to the silent scenes of "friends who are waiting" for his father. 2. The picture is great. Colors in the frames, angles, compositional aspects of the frame - all this looks harmonious and does not distract from the plot, but on the contrary increases cinematic clarity. 3. Personally, prison-thieve themes are often boring to me, but in this film they are not an end in themselves, but only a context, and in this role they quite adequately complement what is happening. “How Vitka Garlic drove Leha Styr to the disabled house” looks in one breath, but all the tense moments do not hang in the air, but are resolved when necessary. The final is exactly what it should be, it is thought out and admired, the other would seem vulgar. This is the story of an unborn man who had the chance to be born. This picture is the debut for Alexander Hunt, and it pleases and allows us to hope for an improvement in the situation with Russian cinema in general. Original
A wonderful catharsis that occurred in a young man, Eugene Tkachuk is simply amazing! Like Alexei Serebriakov, of course. I want to compare with a nasty duckling, among junk, orphanage education, anger at his father for a downtrodden mother, vulgarity - suddenly at the end Vitka finds himself, suddenly soars over himself, realizing something big. Which was previously unavailable.
In short, it is worth watching the film to understand something more, so that in the soul that is responsible for conscience, love and care. And get a little taller. Thank you to the director for a wonderful film! It's very hard!
I do not consider myself a professional expert in the field of cinema, but having the motto 'Life is too short to watch a bad movie' I have developed a certain set of rules that help not to go wrong in choosing a session. According to the criteria ' a large budget with small advertising and a narrow release' and, of course, the start of assessments on Kinopoisk, this film was selected for viewing. And my expectations didn't disappoint.
An excellent debut work of the young director is an original and spectacular story, well-tailored and qualitatively played.
An easy tale about complex things, without overdoing the drama, with a precisely measured, real number of emotions and feelings of the characters, so as not to fall into a pathos tear-pressing movie.
History is not about everyone, but for the masses, because I think it can make everyone think. In it, we see the systematic development of the main character, each step or action of which (possibly contrary to first impressions) has a clear logic and comprehension. And the main storyline and background - with the personal experiences of the main Hero - are closely intertwined and connected, so to understand (displeasing some) the ending is like solving an equation with one unknown - all further logic and motivation of his actions will be extremely clear.
In addition to high-quality production in general, we have an excellent acting work, a very, very pleasant and stylish camera, as well as an original soundtrack, which may not have been a revelation to me, but nevertheless was very organic in this film.
Bottom line: in light of the permanent ' rising from his knees ' Russian cinema, such work is highly recommended for viewing.
9 out of 10
The problem of film comedies as a genre in modern Russia is widely known to our viewer. So, every year on the screens is not one stupid comedy, which is more likely to cause hysterical laughter than soulful. Neither bad ratings nor lawsuits save the situation - it seems that people will never stop going to this, and as a result, these films will not stop being released. This problem partly concerns other representatives of the genre of Russian comedies, one of which is the picture of the debutant Alexander Hunt' How Vitka Garlic drove Leha Shtyr to the disabled house'. Such remarkable and fresh things for Russian cinema simply lack the audience’s attention because of the already formed attitude to this genre. However, is it safe to say that Hunt's film deserves attention, albeit because of its own timekeeping and not much? The answer to this question is partially given by an atmospheric trailer for the picture, which will certainly interest an intellectual and thoughtful viewer, but what is expected in practice?
In fact, this film does not have subtexts. Moreover, the director of the picture Alexander Hunt deliberately misses moments of blackness and contempt for reality, with which the two main characters of the picture interact. The author builds the film lifelike and simple, how simple the characters of his tape. What about the heroes? One of them, Vitka Chesnok is a simple Russian Gopnik, whose mentality and lifestyle are known to the viewer firsthand. Vitya has an unshakable mountain of problems, which he hopes to cope with by creating a new life, a new relationship with a new apartment and forgetting his current relatives, the love for whom he lost in the distant past. Helps him in this, of course, as well as any other worker from the factory, bad stuff in large sizes. And now, when all Vitina life goes downhill, hopes for a happy future are extinguished every day, suddenly Leha Shtyr, Viti’s father, who abandoned the boy as an orphan, returns from prison with a stroke. And if the half-hearted father had no vacant apartment, with which Vitka intended to start a new life, the century Garlic would not pay attention to that. However, the situation develops in this way, as a result of which Vitka immediately decides to leave his native city for a while in order to give his father to the shelter and get his living space.
Based on this story and the genre of roadmowie, good representatives of which in Russian cinema can be counted on the fingers, Alexander Hunt pays a huge role in revealing the images of the main characters of his film, which are definitely worth each other. From Viti Garlic turned a real grotesque gopnik, thanks not only to the stunningly accurate acting work of Evgeny Tkachuk, who seems alive and authentic in this role, but also from the heart of the selected acid palette of shades of clothing Viti. In addition, the image of Vitka forms an authentic Russian rap, which gives the hero a full relationship with the landscapes on the screen. Here play and 'patimaker', and Mushrooms, and Husky, which only more immerses in what is happening representative of modern youth, if he bothered to see this movie. In fact, all aspects inherent both externally and internally, Vitka, thoroughly and from all angles convey to the screen such a characteristic image of the Russian Gopnik.
In contrast to the established carefree Gopnik put his father- Leha Styr. Alexey has already gone through all the difficulties of life, which later await his son, if he does not turn off the curve of the path. Therefore, the task of Shtyr is not only to save his life from constant loneliness inside the home of the disabled, but also to fight for the future of his own son. Because of his age, because of his experience, the hero of Alexei Serebriakov makes a choice not in favor of himself, as he once abandoned his son as an orphan, and perhaps for the first time chooses the life of another, resolutely giving preference among these tasks to the second, most, in his opinion, important. Naturally, the image of Shtyr would not be so colorful and ambivalent, if not for the sensitive work of Serebryakov, lost in his own roles. However, it is in this picture that Alexey seems to be a real and feeling Man with a capital letter of this word, which was lost among the clumsy roles, it seemed, from the film ' Sickle and Hammer'Sergei Livnev. The return of the former Serebryakov, and not his replacement in 'Leviathan'Zvyagintsev, was definitely worth the budget allocated for the film, so much so that with the absence of this actor, Hunt's screen test is difficult to imagine alive and authentic.
In the dry residue, the picture of Alexander Hunt ' How Vitka Garlic drove Lehu Styr to the disabled house' is a film with many flaws and inaccuracies, ranging from strangely chosen angles for shooting, creating a feeling of not their freshness, but only unnecessary pretentiousness, and ending with poorly worked out, due to rather small timekeeping, secondary characters, whose roles were accordingly also played at the proper terrible level. However, not all the debuts of Russian cinema this year will be successful, right, Kantemir Balagov? It is impossible not to recognize the obvious mistakes of Hunt, but it is equally difficult not to close your eyes to them, given the truthfulness and vitality of his debut picture.
As a child, Victor is attracted to adventures and adventures. But over time it will become more realistic to look at the world, although the craving for adventure and everything new will remain forever. Vitya has such qualities as patience, slowness, the ability to diligently perform monotonous work. I am not ill-memorable and very upset if he learns about the fraud. For a long time he will call upon the conscience and prudence of the offender. But for relatives and friends, he will stand on the mountain, preferring their interests to his.
Not your business is a lie
The Russian film with an obscenely long title this year attracted attention not only by its title. The film search article even mentioned Tarantino and Wong Kar-Wai. It was written that there is an interesting story, cool color correction and even an attractive soundtrack. In our city, this film appeared in a limited release, so you had to watch while it was hot. Well, after 'Arrhythmia' and 'Salute-7' and 'Walk, Vasya!' there was another good movie that they can watch without spitting, nausea and the desire to include a review of Kharchka. No kidding. You can really watch. Don't get tired or cry.
In ancient and folk medicine, garlic was used in the treatment of tuberculosis, asthma, head and eye diseases, diseases of the respiratory organs, against scurvy, influenza, various forms of colitis, atherosclerosis, for vapors from rheumatism, as an antidote for poisoning. Garlic is the best preventive agent during an epidemic of cholera, plague, in the treatment of leprosy. In Russia, a mixture of crushed garlic and onions was used for fever, and ointment from garlic and wooden oil - from the bite of poisonous snakes.
Not Your Business - In Discobar
Personally, I think a movie with an indecently long title is hard to call a comedy. Here. It's funny, nothing more. Although representatives of the cult subculture with seeds, spit and jackets may find for the guys 'Naked gun' in the cube. By the end, you realize that a drama flashed before your eyes, and not a bad one. The eternal problem of fathers and children. First, Vitya Garlic does everything not to please the audience, making them lament the thought ' why I came here' But then there's Lech's Stick to push the kid into the background. It's blatantly eating all the attention.
Alexey boasts a very developed intuition. But in achieving his desires, he is helped not only by her, but also by the activity and will inherent in Löhe. Alexey knows how to assess his strength. If he is confident in his success, he will go to the victorious end, and if the successful outcome seems doubtful to the man, then, most likely, he will abandon his attempts. Leha's accommodating character helps him to happily build a family life. Most of all in his life, Leha appreciates his father.
Not your business, I don't care
Although there are no sparkling dialogues, crazy adventures, a woman of pleasant appearance, it looks definitely easy. It is a reminder that we do not choose our parents. Whatever the father is and whatever he has done in the past, the son has only two options: accept and forgive, or defeat and throw the parent out of life. The absence of a father can always leave a negative charge of energy in the soul. Hence resentment at the whole world, uncertainty in life and almost always a drunken head. We are glad that in the film with an indecently long title there are no template phrases and standard heart-to-heart conversations, or even the following:
In one jeep, the owner put a pin in the box, after some time at night his car was tried to steal, but the process was not completed due to a passing patrol of the PPS, although the owner believed that the hijackers scared off the pin. In the morning, the man came to the service with the following problem: the engine started, but the car did not go. The servicemen who lifted the car on the lift were lying in a fit of laughter - the hijackers removed the cardana from the car and wanted to roll it away, and the pin in the automatic transmission in the R position did not bother them at all.
Not Your Business at Dawn (Alliance cover)
And then the viewer would immediately exclaim ' our answer 'Rain Man' The director Alexander Hunt does not manipulate the emotions of the above-mentioned intellectual viewers. When the first time the ears were heard "Not Your business - I will be there", there was even a resentment against the director, since it sounded criminally small! But wait until the end to hear the song completely before the end of the credits. The soundtrack, by the way, there very much even came to the place, even if not in our taste. So the film with an obscenely long title again made it clear that Russian cinema is not in rigor. We have to wait for a good movie.
The House of the Disabled is one of the ambitious projects of King Louis XIV. The large complex, built at the turn of the XVII-XVIII centuries, was conceived as a shelter (and hospital) for old and mutilated soldiers. In the days of its dawn, the House of Invalides accommodated about 4,000 residents. During the XIX century, the number of veterans living in it decreased, so the complex acquired historical and museum significance. Today, the House of Invalides is already well-deservedly popular with tourists and is one of the symbols of Paris.
P.s. Not Your Cause - Russian Longing. The song sounds in the trailer for the fourth international festival Clique Fest. And that's damn cool! It immediately fades into the memory of the ear.
What can be interesting film about ordinary boys from the neighborhood and old convicts? Everybody! Moreover, it is not about them, and not even about how someone took someone somewhere, a film about the momentary human choice, the one that makes us – namely us. Sometimes, this choice is not the right and rational, and sometimes even life-threatening (and not only ours), but we are all in it, and do it differently – we will die morally, because moral death occurs first in our eyes. . .
A family movie. The meaning of life. About our cockroaches in our heads, also inherited. It's banal. It's just imbued with reality. They know ordinary people and recreate their reality on the screen. Believe each character like yourself, by the way, brilliant acting and casting. I believe!
The visual solution of the film is quite straightforward, in my opinion, without special & #39; intertextual nesting dolls & #39; and blurred hints. A fairly accessible film language, even very bold: starting from the color solution (almost the entire range of the film is the opposing red and green tones, sometimes in its most acidic shades). All this looks vivid and cute, working, both on immersion in the inner world of Garlic, and on ' decorating' gray everyday reality, adding aesthetics to the picture. Moreover, the color contrast is achieved thanks to the colored light enveloping the characters and locations.
A lot of wide angle (and even most wide-angle portraits), a lot of stedicam, the camera is sliding, but alive, breathing, living. Together with the copter, beautiful bokeh, Gallandic angles of shooting, scenes in a low key (extended on the high sensitivity of the sensor), all this gives a new camera school. We cannot forget the artists without whom this world would not be created, and of course, brilliant makeup artists. The film looks very modern and decent.
The soundtrack simply cannot be other, it unquestioningly works on the story, and just rocks, setting the right temporite, yo brothers!
The direction and plot are strong, dynamically dispersing the story, ' keep the viewer by the balls' until the very end, throwing in the end in some confusion (after the denouement scene, it is too metaphorical and figurative, against the background of the hyperreal of the rest of the film... You think: ', it doesn’t happen like this in life' and you start looking for the hidden meaning, which is really there, even if everyone has a little bit of his own. You leave the theater alone with your thoughts and assumptions. But this is exactly what is beautiful, this is the whole meaning and beauty of author’s cinema. Doing the work in your head is his calling!
If you have any doubts, you should watch it (and yes, there is something to see in the cinema).
And laugh, and be horrified, and sad, and think, and aesthetic pleasure will get in the compartment with pride for your country, which still shoot and roll quality author's film.
7 out of 10
With all the surprise from the name, frightening even accustomed to me, from the first minutes it becomes clear that there is nothing expected to be nasty behind this name. And by the middle of the film, there is no doubt that the name is different.
So here it is.
..as far as the film itself. Those who are about in the topic will immediately notice that the comic name is solemnly signed drama, crime and will be fabulously surprised that it is. By default, everything in the film is comical enough, if you are loyal to the realities of the mentality of our wonderful country. Otherwise, this is a rather heavy thing with a lot of life moments that, in turn, do not load at all. Thank you for this presentation.
Separately, there is a desire to talk about two things in the film that you need to pay attention to first. These are the colors of the picture and the soundtrack.
The picture with all the blackness reflected in it is bright incredibly, but real.
The soundtrack for the film is dynamic things from modern ru rap music and VHS ladies.
The coolest thing for me is the terrible resemblance I've been looking for so long. There were certainly many attempts to repeat Ricci’s earlier work from a short meter to the gloops of God himself. I watched all this and thought about what kind of shit and fake, and worried - because how can we transfer this style to our mentality, the more they are quite similar. After many years, everything fell into place. It's a domestic Guy Ricci. From the color of the characters' faces to the appropriateness of the soundtrack. I'm done.
9 out of 10
I'm going to Russia, I won't finish, where's my dad's panel?
It starts out like noise in the stomach.
Hiding in muddy water.
Emerge into the cradle
And to grow a little bit in the panel.
Hideaways with the father: hot and cold.
To eat is the tears of my mother's cook.
The sun melts in the window like a pot of gold.
Dad was fake. . .
Listen to me, brother. It's very simple. This is not the time for jokes, you'll be minting your jokes on your bunks. There is a movie that will show you the truth, whether you want it or not. So listen and remember. Don't worry about that.
A lot of good movies came out this year, a lot. Debuts especially. It's so hot, so eat while it's young and green. One such aspiring director made a film about Vitka Garlic, well, you didn't know about him before, I guess. Vitka Garsnock was a good guy... A bully, of course, but with a soul. At the factory he plowed, the family contained, however, freedom he wanted, freedom, if it was wrong. Justice and freedom. We are either on a stake or free will.
Just happened to meet my dad at Vitka's recently. The same, dissolute one who left him. Dad seems to be seriously ill, he needs help. And Vitka held a grudge against him - and puffing, they say, I don't need a folder like this, come on, I'll give it to the disabled house. And he went, only his heels sparkled.
I didn’t know about him until this movie came out. It is a pity, of course, to roll it quite limited. But a good movie will find its viewer, be sure, I give a tooth, or even a jaw can. Not for the first time, you know.
Well, you're asking, boy, what is it, is it a good drama, or should we be proud? I'll tell you more: as usual, it's not a drama, but a tragicomedy. And not just tragicomedy, here in addition looms another genre - road Movie. A great rarity for our cinema, but it is in this genre that a private family case turns into a kind of philosophical parable, in which everything is coordinated, thoughtful and clearly follows one after another. For the debut work is really an achievement, remember my word as your own.
This story begins very optimistically. The provincial identity in which our Vitka Garlic resides, if we treat it without high-browed skepticism, despite depressing and very recognizable details (such as microcredit points, swear words on fences, gopniks on the streets, rural discos, unpaved roads, drunkenness in families and a panel sky of edges), is more amusing than sad. This, if you correctly understand the concepts, is an element of explicit comedy. Or, more specifically, a kind of social satire.
Alexander Hunt with great honesty and some kind of specific warmth manifested to the habitat of the heroes, draws a reality in which there are no fundamentally positive personalities at all, because everyone holds anger, resentment or profit mania behind his soul, unable to restore order on his territory, in his own head. Closed in the interiors of a meager existence, mired in a heap of problems, the heroes do not understand how to love each other, how to accept or let go of their neighbor, how to get rid of the burden on the soul to breathe fully. Vitka Garlic, boiling in this turbulent cauldron, survives at the expense of his own audacity: no one is the law to the kid - no mommy, no folder, and let the wife sit at home and cook while Vitka beats off someone else's game. Whatever goes wrong, everyone gets a snout and doesn't show much. It's all here, basta!
The situation changes when Garlic unexpectedly meets his father, weak and meek, from which for many years there was neither hearing nor spirit, and then a trip to the place that does not appear on the map, and in the anecdotes of the bald behind the garages dries up. Here everyone has their own interest: Vitka has a mercantile, Lekha Shtyr has a humanistic one. While Garlic goes through all stages from hatred of his father to an attitude that can be called filial care and tenderness, Shtyr himself, perfectly understanding the state of affairs, being at the stage of atonement for the sins of the past, tries to save two people at once: his son - from the dangerous realities of his own environment, and himself - from senile loneliness before the approach of death.
Whatever comedic tinsel Hunt throws to the viewer as a soothing, no matter what ridiculous incidents he confronts the characters on the way from point A to point B, the second half of the film makes a bias mainly into tragedy - but a tragedy with a remnant of great hope, and most importantly, with obvious progress observed in changing the Garlic and Shtir themselves, who at the beginning of the story were not at all what they were at the end.
'How Vitka Garlic took Lecha Styr to the disabled house' is a film originally hidden in the shell of cynical ' black' with elements ' black' humor, but, as it turned out, hiding under it a large, lively, hot heart.
And, damn it, can we not be proud of such pictures? Despite the fact that we have already seen more than once such heroes, and despite the mistakes inherent in any debutant, which have already confused other reviewers. You, brother, confess to yourself as if in spirit, as if you stand before an icon or a mother of your birth, bent your lying knees: you, brother, can you tell the difference between a film ' without a soul' from a film in which this very same ' soul' tears up and mosques? Can you, looking back at our Russian mentality, feel all the power and energy of this brisk, deep tragicomedy, revealing not only a private plot within the framework of the topic #39; fathers and children #39, but also appearing, no less, in the form of a real modern parable that there are no strangers’ parents, there are no distant relatives, no connection is broken, cemented with blood? No matter how we run away from it, no matter what we do to cut off our rotten roots, everything sooner or later turns into the realization that we are who we are.
And that's true, brother. This is the real truth.
'How Vitka Garlic drove Lech Styr to the disabled house' just as cool and beautifully shot as 90+% of his characters are disgusting.
And if we abstract from the fact that without all these people, the world would definitely be a better place and Rashka would cease to be a Shit, as the Minister of Culture kindly calls the country, then the plot is interesting, labeled and malicious.
As for the debut picture, Alexander Hunt issued a very good film based on a strong script by Alexei Borodachev, and in the lens of the operator Daniil Fomichev, even disgusting urchins cause interest, not vomiting.
I think it will not be a spoiler that the hatred of Gopnik Garlic (Tkachuk) to his father-criminal Shtyr (Serebriakov) (both played just brilliantly) will undergo different modifications and during this road Movie is transformed into other feelings ... (the law of drama, you know), but the end is pleased. I was afraid that it would be right, and finished as it should.
In general, of course, this film is one of the main events of the film year in Russia.
8 out of 10
Having visited the preview, I really wanted to share my impressions about the film-debut director Alexander Hunt.
The picture tells about the seemingly ordinary history of our realities in places: 27-year-old orphanage Vitka Garsnok, stinged life, and he wants to leave his family (wife and son). Only he was going to take a loan for an apartment, where he wants to live with his mistress, as unexpectedly, his criminal father, aka Leha Shtyr, with a broken spine, disability, and, more importantly, with his own apartment, is discovered.
The film tells the story of the acquaintance of a father with his son not through a drama with a tear, but much more entertaining: he carries the audience in a red van with the main characters for several hundred kilometers, and makes you experience obstacles that arise on the way, for the most part of a moral nature. The film certainly raises serious and pressing problems of our time, such as fatherlessness, to which Chekhov devoted his first play. We see a sense of humanity awakening in the high-pupil of the orphanage, including towards his father, despite the fact that he left his family.
It is important that the narrative is conducted with its own color and self-irony, and not tritely strained tragedy.
About the cool caste, take at least Tkachuk and Serebryakov, who really look like relatives, camera work and color cor is also worth mentioning.
The soundtrack, as for me, occupies a separate place there: Husky (and others like him) fit there as best as possible, conveying the mood and sense of life.
And where the main characters went together and why, you can find out, watching the film, which, I hope, will roll in the cinemas of the country and find its audience.
I have been waiting for the premiere of this film for over a year and a half. For the first time I found a mention of him on the KinoPoisk with an indication of the leading actors and a note about the beginning of the shooting process. Further, the creators launched a project on a crowdfunding platform, organized specifically to raise money for the shooting of individual scenes (by the way, he failed to complete the program - of the required 350,000 rubles managed to collect only 23,131 rubles, and even then, no share was bought, and in fact, among other things, it was possible to become a happy owner of the car of the main character. But alas... The official trailer, made at the proper level, has already been released, heating up the interest in the picture that is already beginning to fade. And silence... Suddenly I learn that Alexander Hunt, the director of the long-awaited film, receives the main prize of the program “East from West” in Karlovy Vary, and even in the competition ' Window to Europe' won! The intensity was increasing. And yesterday I finally found out about that, 'How Vitka Garlic took Leha Styr to the disabled house'
In itself, the genre of road-movie, as a rule, always causes interest. Everyone is curious, well, just like grandmothers at the entrance, you know, where they all go and what in the end will happen to them all. Of course, the main authorities in this segment can be considered ' Boomer' Buslov and ' Alien' Bormatova. Alexander Hunt with his film did not come close to these films, already recognized as successful, even close.
From the very beginning, watching this movie is uncomfortable. The work of the operator is noticeable in full, but to understand whether it is a kind of personal handwriting, or he just picked up the camera for the first time, I could not by the end of the viewing. Just as preposterous and ridiculous looked shooting from a quadcopter, wow!
The plot, however, is a little intriguing: the orphanage boy Vitka Chesnok, a representative of the sports-suit brotherhood and an active member of the club of seed lovers, living in a dirty two-piece in the Russian outback with his wife, mother-in-law and young son, and in his spare time preferring to light up in a local restaurant with normal beauties, suddenly learns that his bad father, Leha Shtyr, who abandoned him with his mother, who hanged herself from grief, has reclined and is now in the city. Only paralyzed him so that he could not take care of himself. And I wanted to spit on him, but suddenly I found out that my father will be a whole apartment, which you can freely enter, not alone, but with a new lady of heart. And the father can be famously attached to the home of the disabled. That's what I decided. And then began the adventures promised by the filmmaker. That's just for us, who have long watched and ' Boomer' and ' Alien', and both ' Brothers' with ' Sisters' finally, what happens on the screen will surely seem secondary.
Bandits are kind and boring, brothers are weak and pathetic, girls are terrible and ugly, the main characters ... That’s the only thing that holds this film. Actually, the project of Alexander Hunt interested me, first and only, the participation of Alexei Serebryakov. He, and even Yevgeny Sidikhin, of all post-Soviet actors, never disappointed me. Alex played at the level as always. You can even fantasize about the fact that the lawyer (the first, White) from the film Bortko, still survived and now in front of us. Eugene Tkachuk with the role, in general, coped. But I can’t help feeling that apart from this type he can hardly play anything else. The rest of the actors are nothing. All of them.
The soundtrack is awful. Do you remember the music in 'Brothers'Balabanova? And in 'Sisters' Bodrov? And the Cord's melody for ' Boomer' will forever stay in your head, no matter what, won't it? Here the compositions are selected by type one is worse than the other.
The timeline of the film is small and by the end of it you do not have time to get tired. It is not a pity to spend an hour and a half on it, it is a pity that all my expectations were not met. I was wondering why the painting took so long. It could have been filmed in a couple of weeks, I mean it. The screenwriter came up with the main core of the picture, and the characters, the behavior of the actors forgot? Or did the director have an attitude that the characters would show themselves? That won't work. What about the stupidity of making the Pimp feel better and the behavior of the bandits? You can't forgive that. Ah! I can't help but mention the ending! What a skill. What an innovation.
You know, I'll never be a jury member of a prestigious feature film festival. I can't give you the main prize for these paintings. . .
This picture has been waiting since the information that the shooting began. I confess my feelings were contradictory. In addition to the fact that the main births in it were played by favorite actors, it was intrigued by the fact that this is a directorial debut. What was alarming was not quite clear, by first impression, the plot. I thought everything was essentially predictable and I just had to watch the story develop. No way! Everything turned upside down in the first minutes of viewing. It seemed that everything was not tragic, sometimes even funny, but some molecule still pinched the heart. Not glamorous stories of non-glamorous characters in an unglamorous place. Here, on the Kinopoisk in the description read about the “hardened heart of Garlic” – no, it seems to me not so. Cooled, maybe, but hardened would have done otherwise. At the end of the first viewing, there was an opportunity to hear answers to the questions of the director, Alexander Hunt. After that, there was a desire to watch the film again, already taking into account this information received, and taking into account some thinking about the whole film “alone with yourself.” We went for the second time, with friends, and, moreover, the age category “parents / children”. Other, “fresh” opinions have emerged. And, interestingly, I wanted to continue this story, as Alexander Hunt deliberately left the last page of this story clean. And different people would fill it up in different ways. This film makes you think, and, think about all generations, each over their own.
For the third time, she led her friends to this tape, who left Russia “beyond the hill” precisely in these years, in which events are developing, and visited us these days. “We didn’t think we were like that, we didn’t think we were like that,” was the verdict, after some silence after the session. - It turns out that there can be real cinema in Russia, not for advertising and farce. It was hard to disagree. I don’t think it’s a movie that I’ve seen and forgotten. After the third viewing, I caught myself thinking that Vitka-some garlic is not because of garlic, that garlic, but because he turns out everything honestly, that is, “in garlic”, slang, such as parsley ...
This picture is the debut work of Alexander Hunt. Where did the directors-debutants in our country have enough money to hire Serebriakov remains a mystery. Anyway, let’s move on to the movie.
The creators did not violate the traditions of Russian cinema and made the characters as disgusting as possible. Many people notice that Vitka Garlic, of course, is cattle, but there is something good in it. Nonsense. Vitka is a character revealed from only one side. Bastard and cattle, hopeless. I can't feel it. Leha Styre is no better. Same cattle, just a bandit. Hope that the characters will kill each other does not leave, because it is difficult to watch the whole movie. I'll just keep quiet about women.
The obvious plus is the story itself. Strangely enough, I want to watch the film to the end, just to find out how it will end. But some scenario elements raise questions. Leha Styr has a whole bunch of terrible diseases. He walks under himself, can not speak, the strength is enough only to turn his head. Why is it so wonderful to him in a wooden village hospital that the hero begins to talk, crawl and even resists Vitka? It's unclear. This is the best example, but not the only one.
The film runs 1:30 despite being incredibly stretched. A lot of empty scenes, for example, where Vitya goes to clean up a small need on the way to Voronezh. Attempts by the creators to show the camera work were unsuccessful. Sometimes it seems that individual scenes carry only a thought ' look, we have a quadcopter and you don't!'
Actors. Evgeny Tkachuk played at the level, without serious mistakes. Alexei Serebriakov is beautiful, his game can be admired for a long time. But, I must say, such weak supporting actors as here, we still need to look.
What can I say at the end? I don’t know how bad things are at the Karlovy Vary Festival that awards are given to such films.
4.5 out of 10
About the 1990s cordially and wisely, or How I revised my attitude to modern Russian cinema
“I’m going to Russia, I won’t get to the end / Where’s my father’s panel?” rapper Husky sings from the speakers of a shabby kernel-red minivan that cuts through the vast Russian expanses. Our days. Vitka Garlic takes her paralyzed criminal father Lehu Shtyr to a disabled home. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, but father and son are not at all happy. Vitka is an orphanage, who did not know parental love and did not see his father for many years, living with an unloved wife, an evil mother-in-law and a young son in an old panel somewhere on the outskirts of civilization, regularly getting drunk to a cattle state and dreaming of moving from his family to a new apartment with his cray Lariska, also unloved, but at least young, with tender skin and elastic body; Leha is tired of life, wound up in zones, a 50-year-old disabled person who is not needed by anyone, who is interested in his son exclusively as the owner of a poor one-piece in a panel, as old as Vitkina, and located all in the same God-forgotten town. I think it is not necessary to explain that Vitka takes Leha to the disabled house not out of the kindness of his soul: fusing his father into the almshouse is the only way to quickly, without spending extra money and nerves, get his apartment (except for his physical elimination, of course). But if you think about it, why the hell did this apartment give up to garlic? After all, from moving his life is unlikely to change. Lariska is an alternative to his wife: cohabitation with her will inevitably turn into the same utter hell - an unwanted child, endless drinking, a sense of dissatisfaction, humiliation and resentment at the bitch-life, cruel and unjust. It stinked on soap, as they say. But Vitka is incapable of digging so deep... At least at first glance.
This cursory description of the full-length debut of the 31-year-old graduate of SPbGIKIT and VGIK Alexander Hunt “How Vitka Garlic drove Leha Shtyr to the home of the disabled” (2017) can lead to suspicion that the film is a typical Russian “black”, at best almost reaching in its artistic quality to the “Cargo 200” (2007) Alexei Balabanov. This is absolutely not the case, although the parallels with Balabanov are certainly obvious.
In form, this film is not even a road Movie, but its subtype called Buddy Road Movie, i.e. Road Movie, in the center of which, as a rule, two mature men who do not harbor a special disposition towards each other and by the will of fate find themselves in the same team, but over time, including under the influence of circumstances that become friends. Even if such a movie can be tragic, like Midnight Cowboy (1969), it still inspires some moderate optimism. Just because it's about friendship, and dying alone and next to a friend is not the same thing.
It is worth noting that in many of Balabanov’s films there is also a motif of the road, the path – in “Brother” (1997), “Brother 2” (2000), “Zhmurki” (2005), “Cargo 200”, “Kochegar” (2010), “I also want” (2012). Only there it is either a path to nowhere, or a movement in a vicious circle, and the heroes are not able to realize or recognize the deadlock of the situation, and therefore, to understand what the root of the impasse is: for example, Danila “Brother” Baghrov everywhere – and in St. Petersburg, and in Moscow, and in the United States – reveals only cruelty and injustice, and his famous thesis “power is in the truth”, as if indicating the way out of the trap into which we all fell, in fact is as absurd as the no less famous phrase of Vladimir Lenin “the teaching of Marx is all powerful because it is true.” Alexander Hunt and screenwriter Alexei Borodachev, on the contrary, give their protagonist Vitka Chesnok a chance to break out of the vicious circle: his path is a path to enlightenment, to the understanding that the father, whatever he is, he has one, and that the prospect of living alone with Lariska, in fact, is no better than the prospect of imprisonment. At the end of the film, Vitka faces a difficult choice: to behave like the character of Alberto Sordi from the brilliant film novel Ettore Scola “Like a Queen” (Come una regina, 1977) – a petty-bourgeois bastard who deceived her old mother into a nursing home, and continue her animal existence or act in a Christian way and show love for her unhappy, lost father.
In the sense of Hunt’s film is undoubtedly an allegory of an internal conflict that haunts most of the inhabitants of Russia, namely a conflict with their own past, in this particular case, the past not so distant, the so-called dashing nineties. Vitka Garlic represents our present, while his father Leha Shtyr represents the birth of Russian capitalism. To come to terms with what happened in our country after the collapse of the USSR, and also in Soviet times, means to break out of the ontological deadlock into which we drove ourselves, and finally begin to build a new Russia.
I’ll admit, I’m amazed that such a young man (I remind you, Hunt is only 31 years old) made such a clear and deep film. The domestic cinema of the 1990s and 2000s is divided for me into Balabanov and everyone else: no one more accurately and at the same time more ruthlessly than Alexei Oktyabrinovich, did not diagnose the bygone – I hope that forever – vague post-Soviet era. When he died, I thought Russian cinema died with him. After watching Hunt's movie, I got a bit upbeat. The integrity of this film is especially pleasing, i.e. it is wonderful for almost everyone – from directing, script and acting (Evgeny Tkachuk as Vitka and Alexei Serebryakov as Lehi are incomparable, the actors of the second and third plan are also incredibly good) and ending with camera work and soundtrack. “How Vitka Garlic took Leha Shtyr to the home of the disabled” is devoid of everything that usually irritates me in modern Russian cinema – theatrical-spoken acting, obsessive didacticism, vulgar socio-political pathos, etc. Others will ask: what about, for example, Andrei Zvyagintsev or Alexei German Jr.? Without a doubt, they are wonderful, talented, original masters, but for all their merits they lack simplicity and at the same time breadth of thought. It’s like comparing Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point (1970) and Milos Foreman’s Taking Off (1971), two films by two great directors about the phenomenon of hippism: the first failed to feel the spirit of the 1960s-1970s era (as Roger Ebert notes in his review of Antonioni’s film), and the second succeeded. From my point of view, our cinema today lacks such a figure as Balabanov, who with his films managed to get into the very nerve of time. Or rather, not enough. I think Alexander Hunt may well claim the role of Balabanov’s successor. Let’s see what his future career will be like.
The film with a poignant and defiant title ' How Vitka Garlic drove Leha Shtyr to the disabled house' caught my attention at the launch stage. Whether the title or the star cast, or maybe the bold statement of the director about working on the film with the desire to bridge the gap between Russian cinema and the Russian audience - something made me follow the process of creation. It is especially worth noting that the film crew is all debutants. What can young filmmakers with a meager budget offer to seasoned film fans?
Something completely new that cannot be missed. A young guy - Vitka Garlic (Eugene Tkachuk) works at the factory, flaunts ' gop' tracksuit and neon sneakers, cheats on his wife with his mistress Lariska, listens to the top rap of the last two years: here and Husky, and Grips, and Patimamer. He has one problem: how to escape from his bloated wife and son, find his corner & #39; and live for pleasure. Here in his life there is Shtyr (Alexei Serebryakov) - a father, a criminal, and now just a paralyzed old man who can not eat porridge himself. Garlic quickly understands that in order to get an apartment, you need to get rid of your father - how? - take him to the disabled house.
Here begins a real Russian road movie, on the road, the relationship between father and son completely change. The only scene where garlic and garlic get closer ' Do you remember? Running at the house, and the voice squeaking like a girl, you say: ' Give me bread, with butter, fat and sugar!' and I - ' Face will not crack?' - ' Will not crack!' Slithers to goosebumps. You start watching the film with a feeling of dislike for all the characters, and you end the viewing with great sympathy and sympathy. This is a tremendous change - a huge emotional experience that you can get in a movie, feel this movie.
' Garlic ' is a real tragicomedy. The tragedy of heroes and the comedy of circumstances - there is where to laugh, and where to think. The director’s great sense of humor is another reason not to miss this wonderful movie. Through humor, the story of the heroes becomes even more lively, human and convex. The cameraman Daniil Fomichev is just smart, I have not seen such an explosion of colors on the screen, interesting angles and generally a presentation in Russian cinema. No wonder he, the youngest operator among the giants of Cannes and the Berlinale, received a special diploma at the festival of operators in Macedonia. Definitely recommended for viewing!
For the first time, quite a long time after seeing the advertising of the film 'How Vitka Garlic drove Lekha Shtyr to the disabled house', I immediately wanted to go to this movie. And so, today, October 12, the day of the premiere, I watched this film.
To say that the expectations were completely unfulfilled is the most accurate definition of the impression after viewing. Instead of a fascinating road movie, we get, in my opinion, a completely gray material. Despite the bright natural panoramas that periodically appear in this film, this is perhaps the only positive moment that pleases the eye.
Who are the main characters? The son is an orphan who does not have, not only that education and at least a bit of morality, but also completely does not give an account of his infernal deeds.
Actor Eugene Tkachuk I will say - I believe! Well played, but... Who are we praising? Why do characters of this order become heroes of films?
Father - performed by Alexei Serebryakova. That's who questions about acting can not be at all. Again, the image of a disabled criminal. Here's another ' a role model'.
I would apply to Alexei the expression 'Silver ray of light in the dark realm'. His work in this film clearly shows the difference between the level of his talent and the level of talent of the creators of this film. The creators of an hour and a half dark kingdom: drunkenness, casual connections, the criminal world, the lack of morality and culture, the lack of family values, and values in the global sense of the word.
What can we learn from this movie? What conclusion can be drawn when a son is ready to kill his disabled father because of an apartment?
Maybe this is a slice of our lives? When '... and in case of refusal, or the absence of relatives, he rewrites the apartment to me...' (viewers will understand).
I want to repeat the thought said by the actor Victor Evgrafov, who played Professor Moriarty in the TV series ' The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson': 'Not those heroes we see on movie screens! i>'
It's true. Take 'Dislike', 'Arrhythmia', 'Vitka Garlic'... What do these movies have in common? Drunk, dirty sex, lack of basic values. . .
Observing the development of our cinema in recent years, one involuntarily comes to the idea that all Russian directors write a final essay on the topic: 'My thoughts on Russia'.
And if the latest competitive victories and high-profile prizes associated with the name of Andrei Zvyagintsev, about a country hopelessly sick, with people and images - ' Leave hope for everyone entering here' then, the young director Alexander Hunt offers us his concept of a man from the outback.
The main characters are the standards of the bottom of our society: the father is a recidivist, a gangster who lived a life devoid of minimal moral foundations, placed in a state of semi-vegetable. Son: a worthy continuation of the genetics of the father - work in a waste processing plant, daily drunkenness, a wedding on summer, dull everyday life of a provincial town with all the attributes of poor life. And here it would seem on such a fertile, almost dead ground, by the efforts of the director, shoots of love and kindness begin to grow. Yes, they are ugly at times, as ugly are the souls of heroes, distorted by long-term reality, but the authors, loving their heroes, gradually teach us to love them. The whole conditional story that happened to the newly acquired family on the way, in fact, does not matter. Road adventures and gangster line sag a little, but the main semantic load does not change: in every person, in the most lost and devalued personality, there is a place for light, a place of love.
The tears of the father, the tears of the son, as a sign of repentance, as a symbol of forgiveness, as an image of the best that is in the Russian soul. Everyone remembers a favorite quote from 'Boomer'- ' we are not, life is like this'.
Special thanks to the director for the ending. Ask any person who has watched the film: 'Vitka left or returned?' and you will get a ready-made test with the answer to the question: 'What dominates in your soul, malice or good?'
Score: solid 6, plus 1 for triple debut. I would add a plus for the game of Evgeny Tkachuk: already a successive film with this actor, surprises with the variety of images contained in his personality.
7 out of 10
This funny, sometimes realistically drawn caricature of the life of the Russian hinterland (and not only the hinterland), shot a little in the spirit of clips ' Leningrad', can be called a comedy rather than a drama.
From the first shots (and according to the description of the film) you tune in to a typical domestic black woman, so beloved both here and abroad, and as a result you get an easy, understandable and in many ways touching movie. The classic plot - finding a prodigal father - is rather characteristic of American comedies, against the background of our realities (I must say, depicted with a grotesque) looks, personally, atypical for me, and the format of the road-movie gives dynamics and does not let you get bored. Hard cynicism in the picture is combined with naivety and romanticism, because people who have a panel belly & #39; have not only basic instincts, everything is a little more complicated.
It seems unnecessary to seriously and deeply analyze the characters of the film, the more information about their lives, views and motives is given just so much that everything that happens is a set of stereotypes of post-Soviet reality and its attributes - from leopard leggings to icons in the house of the former convict.
The main advantages of the picture include an abundance of humor, not always obvious, and the soundtrack. The same ' Mushrooms' sound very different if from Moscow clubs they are transferred to the context of the film. And the final song in the degree of purity and naivety can be compared only with the purity and naivety of the very "Mysterious Russian soul" & #39; even if sometimes its owner is on the social bottom.
7 out of 10
There is a special type of film that is specific to each country. Movies that can be understood only if you understand the color of the country where it was shot. We have it sounding like ' here the Russian spirit, here Rus smells'. This type can be attributed to the great directorial debut Alexander Hunt with a sonorous and interesting title ' How Vitka Garlic drove Lekha Shtyr to the disabled house'.
The tape is a quite ordinary road movie. The main thing for movies of this kind is to have interesting characters holding their way and, more importantly, adventure along the way. With confidence we can say that the road Movie at Hunt came out worthy. On the main plan we have Vitka Garlic and his father Leha Styr. Vitka is incredibly offended by his father, who abandoned him and his mother in his time. But now fate has pushed them again, and Leha wants to get rid of the old man, sending him to a nursing home, throwing him in a car and starting a trip to a distant kilometer road with him.
Much about the adventure of Vitka Garlic and Styr will not work and, in general, do not need. It's simple: there's travel, there's heroes who experience something new on this journey, there's humor and funny situations, and there's morality. Hunt does not discover something new, but certainly does not lose in what he is trying to show. Every element of his story works as needed. Vitka Garlic is a typical hero of the province, a bad person, a radish, driven by mercantile interests, but who still feels something good. Lekha Shtyr in the performance of the excellent Serebryakova is an even greater bad person and radishes, a complete criminal and recidivist who realizes the frailty of his existence and all the sins of his past thanks to this journey in search of shelter not in a home for disabled people. And these two characters, perhaps, only lack more moments to reveal the relationship, because in essence you can remember only one touching dialogue. The drama wouldn't be superfluous. But for one and a half hours and a given vector of plot development - quite worthy. Secondary characters, of course, are not full of brightness, but no less organically reflect many familiar images from familiar life. And humor, built on interaction, is undoubtedly fun.
One of the main and amazing advantages is the soundtrack of the tape, which consists entirely of compositions of Russian rap. But here's the thing: here songs of this genre look as fit and organic as possible. All because of the atmosphere and tone. In some habitual disgusting vulgar Russian comedy, any of these tracks would only cause dislike, but here this soundtrack is an integral part of the life of Vitka Garsnok and his entourage. And each track is perfectly selected for the right moment, which only adds to the same humor and causes a pleasant smile on the face.
Of course, potentially the tape could be much better: somewhere lacks the development of the conflict of the characters, and, as a result, their own, somewhere want to savor the moment longer, and there is nothing that will make you remember the picture as something more. But you can't say it's bad. For a debut, such things can be forgiven. Hunt shot quite simple, easy, cheerful and soulful movie, catching this atmosphere, where the Russian spirit hovers. And even if the best examples of people of our country are not visible here, but the images are quite clear and recognizable, and they are served in an ironic and funny manner, from which it is definitely pleasant to watch the tape. 'How Vitka Garlic drove Lech Shtyr to the disabled house' - an example of a good tape that does not jump above the head, but which for its short timekeeping clearly will cause you to smile more than once and, even more pleasantly, make you think. Some of them don’t even have two hours.
One of the most striking and original films roaming the Russian film festivals in 2017 was the debut of Alexander Hunt “How Vitka Garlic Carried Leha Shtyr to the Home of the Disabled”, staged according to the graduation script of Alexei Borodachev, who in 2015 received the script award “Word” for him. The film does not fit into the trends of the Russian film market that have emerged recently: it does not represent pure “black” water, everything is too caricatured and ironically presented, is not another film about “modern people in a modern city with modern problems”, and, fortunately, does not tell how cool and decent it was to live in the wonderful times of the thaw. This is a classic road movie, during which two disgusting characters recognize each other and seem to change a little.
It seems that because the director and the writer wisely leave the ending open, serious and difficult. The fact is that at the beginning of the film, the characters are disgusting not only to each other, but to almost any normal viewer. Garlic here is called a young man of this type, from the number of representatives of which our entire society suffers. The guy drinks, fights, takes out a loan, knowing in advance that he will not give it, cheats on his wife, and is married only because he pregnant his future wife. This is a gopnik who is forced by life circumstances to do something, but he does not really succeed, and does not want to. In general, an irresponsible and extremely dangerous person who we regularly meet, who live around us and who we would like not to see. Separately, it is worth mentioning a very annoying, but pertinent soundtrack, consisting mainly of Russian rap, so it is easier to feel what a narrow porridge reigns in the head of the main character. The sticker is his father, who did not see his son abandoned in childhood for many years, a criminal, “finished”, if we express it as a lexicon of people like him. And bring them together very difficult and unpleasant circumstances. The pin is practically paralyzed due to a spinal cord injury and will die from day to day, and the nurse who cares for him wants to take his apartment for herself, because she spent a lot of time and effort on him. That’s just Garlic does not agree with this, it’s a free apartment definitely does not hurt for dates with a mistress, but also to babysit with a paralyzed father, who disgusts him, he does not intend, so the two of them go on a trip to the nearest disabled home, where there is an extra place for the former convict.
Both characters are mutually disgusted only by the fact that their fates are closely intertwined, by the fact that they have negatively influenced and influenced each other’s lives, but over time they realize that their characters, their habits, and even their sense of humor are quite similar. They begin to feel like a father and son not so much in terms of relationships, but in terms of a real, subcutaneously tangible kinship, from which there is no way to get rid of.
The film is not spared some shortcomings, however, the debutante is forgivable. In the film, the exposition is significantly prolonged: the journey begins only at the 32nd minute of an hour and a half picture, and in places at the beginning you can see an illogical editing, you feel that much has been cut, that the beginning was even longer. And towards the end, a certain clumsiness and convention begins. For example, one of the last scenes with bandits, which is headed by the authority of Plato performed by Andrei Smirnov, seems very far-fetched and implausible, it is too obvious that the events are dictated by a scripted necessity.
But with all these flaws, the film does not lose pace for a second, does not relieve tension, does not let go of its complex, ambiguous conflict, really fresh, although predictable in its resolution. It is clear to anyone who has ever watched a road movie from the beginning of the journey that in the end father and son will remember who they are to each other, it is another thing that we have to watch two extremely irresponsible and, frankly, bad people, unhappy and lonely, but trying to look strong. Atypical for modern Russian cinema characters, for the thousandth time, but freshly depicted Russian province, as well as numerous and unexpected turns do not allow the viewer to relax and make him think during this small, but very bright journey.
Back in early summer, after reading the title and watching the trailer, I was very interested in this film. Immediately there was a special approach, with love or something. According to the trailer, Tkachuk’s excellent game and his outward resemblance to Serebriakov, who plays his father, were already noticeable.
Wait for the film at the box office had to see it at the festival 'Meridians of the Pacific'.
There was no special expectations for the film, the director's debut still. Of course, I wanted to enjoy the painting. And I got it right.
From the first minutes of five, the film already drags and plunges into its unpretentiously dramatic and comedic atmosphere. The main character is fully revealed to us at the beginning of the first act, and in the future there are no questions about his motivation in the whole story.
And now, imbued with all this gop-stop romance from the very beginning, it is impossible to tear the eye and brain away from the film until the very end.
I want to highlight some aspects of the picture:
Soundtrack
If you like Russian rap, then this film, you are unlikely to like, as there the whole film he plays, here you and ' Mushrooms' and ' Peak' and Husky', and many others. And that’s because such a soundtrack is clearly tailored to maintain the atmosphere and at the same time ridicule stereotypes about the characters presented. I myself do not listen to this, but in this tape it looked as appropriate as possible, and even in places ' rocking'.
Actor's game
Throughout the film, he did not cease to admire the play of Evgeny Tkachuk. Gopnikov, cattle and drunkards are often presented in domestic films too caricatured. In this case, everything looks impossible true and at the same time funny, serious, sad and harsh. All emotions and states of the character are perfectly conveyed. It is also worth noting Alexei Serebryakov and those who made up the caste. The characters of father and son are perfect. Yes, and Serebryakov even, lying down the whole film, plays, as usual, well. It is a pity that his character was so incompletely revealed.
Secondary characters, although not disclosed, but they do not need it, enough of their game, everything they do looks as natural as possible.
Placing and Colors
As the title of this review says, this is the reddest and greenest movie. Here we must pay tribute to the director, production artist and cameraman. The whole film in the visual range is dominated by red and green, but this does not mean that everything is simply painted in these colors. You can see that people are so bothered that even passing trucks on the highway only red and green, not to mention the clothes of the people in the frame. The combination of these two colors is noticeable even in the smallest detail and in almost every frame. And some plans can be disassembled on wallpaper for the desktop due to the harmony of color. All this color content produces a grand aesthetic happiness and even more gives pleasure from this picture.
Third Act
This is the only place that spoiled the impression of the film a little.
The motivation of the secondary characters was not quite clear, but the ending was not. However, if I think about it, it will not work without spoilers.
Result
The painting is definitely very fitting. We were able to show so realistically the Russian reality, the mentality of certain strata of the population. And all this is done qualitatively, with love and inspiration.