In "Your Tutor" in the foreground stated the story of loneliness of a woman. It is amazing how the young director Anton Kolomeets managed to convey the most important aspects of female cinema. The result was a very sensual melodrama, which female directors can not always reliably portray. In this regard, you feel not only the confident handwriting of the director, but also the screenwriter, which is Kolomeets, taking up research and depiction of a rather difficult topic for yourself.
In the center of the plot is the story of a female tutor in literature Anna Germanovna and a graduate of Savva school. From the very first meeting between the heroes felt attraction. And by all the standards of the genre, these two are timidly but purposefully getting closer and closer. Although we have already observed this many times, it is not secondary that is important here, but the ability to show between the characters the very spark of attraction that will convey the entire sensuality of the picture. I would even call this movie unique in its genre for Russia. Rarely such a quality is found in a modern Russian melodrama, especially from a male debutante.
Appropriate actors are chosen for the role – Natalia Vdovina and Alexei Sergeyev. Blonde and blonde. In addition, the picture itself radiates light tones, symbolizing virginity, purity and sincere feelings of the heroes. Let such love is forbidden by definition, and it is unlikely to have the status of “before the grave”, but the viewer will be pleased to see such a tandem, albeit with a huge age difference. It is no coincidence that Kolomeets uses foreign classical literature as a connecting element. The tutor is a highly spiritualized middle-aged woman, but lonely due to the inability to find a mate for her interests, and her student is a young guy who seeks to understand the basics of high culture, because he is interested in it.
According to the laws of the genre and the rules of life in the relationship of such a couple burst and “third superfluous”. So not everything in the film follows a straight line. Without omissions and understatement, clarifying relationships and jealousy was not enough, of course. But that's how it should be. Without this, it is not only not interesting to watch movies, but also to live.
Found the movie by accident. Looking for something else. And suddenly, such a revelation. Of course, I understand that the producer of the film was Valery Todorovsky! The son of a famous director. I’m not surprised that he was allowed to make this movie. After all, such content in our country requires permission. Natalia Vdovina perfectly coped with the role. I knew about her. But after the film, I studied her entire biography. The film contains many literary symbols:
The flower of the lily as a symbol of continuing life, rain as irrigation, as a symbol of the fact that ' rain washes away all traces' There was such a German film with that name, the floor lamp, as a symbol of vicious love. Like a lantern that illuminates vicious love, a ship with scarlet sails, which is held in the elevator by a neighbor of Anna Germanovna, a symbol from the work of A. Green & #39; Scarlet sails & #39; symbol of dreams and love. A broken call, otherwise everyone would ring the doorbell, she is a symbol of a fascinating and attractive woman. Her very name and patronymic: Anna Germanovna. Anna is the mother of the Virgin Mary. German, if translated from German:' Herrin der Maenner' in translation ' Lord of men' A parallel between an elderly experienced woman and a young inexperienced girl who follows the main character. It's very symbolic. Thank you to the writers and the director and producer. I'm going to watch the movie a second time.
This is probably the best thing I have seen in recent years from made in Russia!
Everything is beautiful in this film, from the actors and the idea, to a beautiful picture throughout the entire viewing time.
I still care about that moment... I don't want to rewind this movie. At all. Not once! Personally, that's an indicator for me. It looks like a picture in one breath.
I know that this topic is not new and it does not appeal to many. That sounds good to me. When professional acting, beautiful people and a beautiful, thought-out picture are added to this, I want to review and revise. Which I actually do with great pleasure. The film makes me think about important things, eternal.
At the end of the viewing there is such an interesting sad, but bright aftertaste. It seems that you understand that this is a film, but still want to understand for yourself, who is this woman - Anna Germanovna? Why did her life go this way and not otherwise? Why is she so lonely and unhappy? What awaits her there, ahead, behind the turn?
I love that movie. Thank you very much for your work!
I have seen a lot of films with Natalia Vdovina and have never been disappointed. The actress is delightful, combining an angelic appearance, a steely character and an impossible sexy voice!
But Alexei Sergeyev was a discovery for me. Nice! : ) A more understandable character, of course, but no less interesting. He and Natalia managed to play too believable, too I would even say natural. And sensual. This is very important to me.
So the puzzle was perfect, as they say. I recommend it to everyone who likes this genre and theme.
Good to see you!
"There's an unopened bud - you just didn't notice."
The title of the film "Your Tutor" is inconspicuous. In my opinion, it even simplifies and “lands” the content that is hidden behind it.
The film is smart, subtle and shot very beautifully. And this beauty and special atmosphere leave the film a chance to please even those viewers who are prejudicial to the topic of the relationship of a teenager with a woman older, also acting in the system of roles “student-teacher”.
The painting turned out "clean." I mean, she's not a bit goofy, sincere, honest. Heroes look very natural, behave in a way that is understandable to human nature and cause, if not sympathy, then definitely a spiritual response of understanding. Although I personally like the characters and when watching I felt sympathy for everyone.
Savva is a young man, a “young man” (as the hero himself emphasized, noting that he is “not a teenager”) attends foreign literature lessons privately from the tutor Anna Germanovna – a woman much older than him – a beautiful woman, whom men pay attention to, but who, nevertheless, is lonely.
The subject that the heroine teaches - foreign literature - is unusual, it adds even more charm and mystery to the character of Anna Germanovna.
As well as his passion for Savva, make him not quite an ordinary young man, like his peers.
And between Sava and Anna there is an attraction and subsequent connection.
Is that a real feeling? Soul kinship? Don't know. The picture, by the way, reminds me personally that in life there is often nothing black and white.
Probably, the plot story could be explained by the fact that he is young, passing the formation of masculinity and discovering new and new facets of its manifestation, and she is lonely and too unusual for her environment, too different from everyone else.
Society, as a rule, treats such experience in people’s lives as forbidden or simply unpromising, having no future. But even if so, in my opinion, there is nothing alien to the human. This does not diminish the value of moments of happiness.
The film is rich in meaningful details of aesthetics, and they are natural and beautiful, look very organic - whether it is eyelashes or curls of the main character, or earlobe with an earring of the heroine. A separate impression is created by the look of the heroine, her eyes, their expressiveness and emotionality. At different moments they reflected confidence, calmness, sadness, embarrassment, timid hopes for happiness, anxiety, fear. Thank you to the lead actor Natalia Vdovina.
The finale of the picture has a sad nostalgic note, remaining an open field for the viewer to think.
I loved the film’s beauty and lack of clarity. The feelings and vivacity of the heroes. And it looks like life itself. His naturalness and living incorrectness.
He and she are dating. A student and a teacher. There's a chasm between them. As is often the case, nothing foretells that a serious feeling can be born from this almost everyday meeting.
A lot of people have already told about this, now there is Anton Kalameyets. And he did it in his own beautiful and delicate way.
So, she is a lonely, attractive middle-aged woman, leading a secluded lifestyle. She has no friends, and meeting her family is a burden. It feels broken and she clearly experienced a personal drama, which the viewer is not given to know. Men obviously like it, that is, the option starved without male attention of a woman is not relevant here.
He is a handsome young companion, no longer a teenager, who does not read books, but watches movies because “it’s so quick.”
And then, against all odds, love breaks out. Despite her past experience, there is still room in her soul for a new feeling, like a lily bud that is lost in a bouquet of stems.
The eyes of stunning Natalia Vdovina very subtly convey the whole range of contradictory feelings - from a timid hope for possible happiness to a total sense of doom. At first, she tries to behave wisely, saying that he can date the one that is more suitable for him in status, age, etc., she does not arrange Savva scenes in those situations where any average woman would throw vases at the wall.
But when the feeling reaches a painful maximum, it can no longer control itself well.
We know how Mrs. Bovary's story ended. It's time to find out the end of Anna Germanovna's story. Especially since her personality, in my opinion, is much more interesting than the character of G. Flaubert.
I cannot but mention the young actor Alexei Sergeyev. He is so persuasive and organic in this role, as if playing himself. Incredibly charming actor of Yesenin type.
Whether the reason or age ripened
A friend of love, I looked at her.
For years she was almost my mother.
I can’t stop myself with her.
Exciting and damn fascinating,
Reasonable and reasonably intelligent
In the words of the series, charming
It's attractive to my affection.
Today I will touch her shoulders or hands.
I trust you because my feelings are deep.
He will not speak, he will speak with his lips.
It will be decided by us tonight.
Naive purity is a sample in front of us. And if you are not stale in the social institutions of society, if the living fountain of feelings is still fresh in you, appreciate the tape properly. There are two subtle souls in harmony with play and singing. He is - because the spring awakening of years pats him on the shoulder, and Mother nature endowed him with high poetics and makings (maybe genes are the cause). It is because all its nature and existence is the embodied harmony of beauty. The beauty of her profession, her credo. Giving Anna the veriges of foreign classical literature, the audience is shown who is in front of us. A subtle psychologist of portraits of people, evaluating not according to certain patterns of ordinary people, but much deeper, layer by layer. And that is why one of the first conversations regarding Savva’s reading is so thorough in the breadth of the characteristic of the literary character being examined. Her experience, a demonstration. Its versatility, its definition. Agree, it is no coincidence that the tutor of artistic orientation is offered to the viewer. With a chemist or a mathematician, Savva would have been much more difficult. And that grotesque makes me smile. Really?
Absolutely amazing story. A young man falling in love with his tutor. The vulgarity of the raid is not one gram. The scenes breathe the excitement of life. Like a white lily in the crystal setting of a vase. Purity and innocence grace in this directorial transfer. The mystery of birth, the shock of the emotions, the process of development - all gathered here. Stage by stage. And all the stops on the long journey, with the shakes of the twitching of life, are also to be considered by reflection. Lying and twisting, hypocrisy and defamation do not want to start. And so bright was the sight of the obedience of the bowing head. The world of experience is a different contrast. Prose without grandeur. And a horror look at the testimony. And the reflection of the stomach on a ruthless argument.
The poetry of the film is perceived organically. The story told from the screen awakened a lively response of empathy. But the background component, in my opinion, is frankly weak. All these classmates, scenes, walk-outs, sad & #39; nothing & #39; Clearly, this is a background, but still too outright neglect here. Or am I wrong?
'Flowering time' (1995), Swedish masterpiece Bo Wiederberg roll-call with 'Your tutor'. And women's wisdom with youth in love is married. Here and there.
What can connect two completely different generations? What are the common interests and futures of two seemingly incompatible characters?
In my opinion, this is mutually beneficial 'barter' with a touch of genuine feelings. A spontaneous outburst that animates once extinct glances. Like a kiss, leading out of suspended animation, voluntary isolation and book ersatz of life – a sleeping and arrogant “teacher princess”.
Savva is a young man who literally breathed new life into a closed and deeply suppressing his vivid feelings and experiences - Anna Germanovna. In return, he received a kind of initiation into the adult male world. Each with his own, but... Conflict in the resources of such a connection. And objective assessment is a rather difficult choice, you can not rely solely on logic. Only a deep empath can feel such situations and know for sure that the heroes did the right thing.
There is no desire to draw parallels or compare this remarkable work with the scandalous diary & #39, ', Reader & #39, and others like them. This is quite a bold, chamber and independent film. With funny and well-thought-out, realistic dialogues, with live intonations. And even more so, there is no reason to bother, like grandmothers at the entrance, about the morality and legality of this kind of relationship. After all, the world is diverse in its manifestation, this is the beautiful carte blanche of cinema.
The script is literally permeated with airiness and symbolism. The delicate lily is a symbol of purity and purity, broken together with the vase and the remains of illusions. Manipulation with curtains - the flowering and decline of relationships, etc.
Some of the fragments are incredibly enjoyable. Game of looks, close-ups, details, drumbeat of rain, silhouettes, goosebumps ... All this in tandem with the music - gives a strong effect of presence. The viewer is involved in the flirting space and reads thoughts through the eyes of the main characters.
The visual “chill” is organically incorporated into the content. I want to erase my memory and look again.
Of course, two whales that adorn this picture are the camera art of Yegor Kochubey and actress Natalia Vdovina, who talentedly embodied her character. However, the entire crew worked at a height.
One of the best domestic films I’ve seen lately. And this is the debut?!
I shook to the depths of my soul, watched and on some scenes I realized that I did not even breathe, in such tension they look!
I also liked the fact that all scenes from and to thought out to the smallest detail, the actors for the main roles were selected amazingly, you look and believe them, it is expensive.
The subject is sensitive, to some extent even forbidden. Some scenes amazed with courage and here again I want to thank N. Vdovin for the incredible talent, a delightful real game, it is always nice to look at the professionals in your field.
One BUT. The image of Anna Germanovna is not disclosed. Who is she, why a tutor at home and not a teacher? Why is she so lonely and so far away from her family? What's her tragedy? Very empathetic to her the whole film, because it feels a tear, some edge that is about to burst, but this does not happen and it becomes even more interesting to watch.
Such stories in life, unfortunately, there is no good ending, too great age difference, thirty years - no jokes. So I was expecting to see either a Shakespeare-style finale, which I really didn't want to see, or what happened in the end. Inexplicability is better than tragedy, but I would like more. Personally.
I would love to watch the movie again, it’s worth it.
BRAVO Director and N. Vdovina, the most talented people!!
Anton, I look forward to your new work and I really hope that you will be able to see in them again Natalia, just an incredible actress and a woman with a capital letter!
10 out of 10
I'm wondering what it takes to make another version of Private Lessons.
I’m thinking, what should be in my head to shoot the next version (which one? 100th?) about the relationship between a teacher and a student? Obvious and understandable. To be honest, I do not care about this topic at all. In order for the story to be unusual and original, there must be some completely unexpected plot twists.
Like the movie Reader, for example. This is a movie from a happy boy from a happy family. It's not a reproach, it's a statement of fact. The whole film has limited life experience. Emotional and sensory perception of the world is characteristic of young girls (and not very young) and romantic teenagers. There is no depth in the film. No serious problems, reflections and analysis of experiences, strong dramas. Erotic and poetic underreflection.
For the debut is quite normal for modern Russian cinema.
The film even stands out with a beautiful picture. But the debut of the same Zvyagintsev does not go to any comparison.
Anton is more interested in aesthetics, 'beautiful', refined-good operator work. Almost the entire film is based primarily on the operator. Yes, it's easy, skillful and beautiful. Form everything, content secondary. Aesthetic in the cube. But for a real movie that would touch, it is not enough.
The film itself is overly romanticized. Characters that have nothing to do with time. There is no time in the film.
The strongest frame is the last 15 seconds of the ending.
Some scenes look artificial and only destroy the concept of storytelling: with a furniture maker - a lover of Chase, coming to her sister, with the "Hero-lover" & #39; performed by Bityukov in the elevator and at the end of the film with a book, a neighbor on the bench. Scenario weak.
The script is not bad, but it is too infantile, partly naive. This is not the view of the 34-year-old director, but rather of the first-year student or even the hero of the film - Savva.
Is this a bad movie? Nope. Good? To some extent. . There is no desire to watch it a second time. That's an indicator. Some bewilderment you feel after watching - what made 34-year-old Kolomeits shoot the story of a teenager and even quite obvious?
Sometimes a cute movie, where sometimes you smile ironically, but sometimes you yawn with boredom and want to squander.
Beautiful, picturesque and partly ' cardboard' ' Private lessons' The question arises: Does Anton understand that there is a grown woman? I feel like he has some fantasies about it.
P.S. And by the way, the emergency works around the clock.
..to read her image as a vulgar, greedy, voluptuous woman.. For a modern young man, understanding Emma's tragedy is not easy.
As a fan of Anton Kolomeets’s early shorts, which I discovered at festivals and later online, I was very much looking forward to his debut feature film. The subtlety and sensitivity with which Kolomeets looks at his characters captivated me while watching the short film Four Women. His deep understanding of the tragedy of a lonely middle-aged woman, as well as of a single woman in general, was best reflected in this film, which led me to look for his other works.
As it turned out, this theme of female loneliness openly slips in almost all of his works, including VGIK’s sketches. With incredible poetry, without a shadow of vulgarity, and yet absolutely masculine, Kolomeets tells story after story, the main and secondary heroines of which are quietly suffering from loneliness women, proudly carrying their suffering with them everywhere.
The film Your tutor is no exception. Once again, the theme of love between an adult woman and a teenager, a teacher and a student is presented with great dignity. The look at the feelings in the film seemed to me modern-romanticized, not without moderate ease and sense of humor.
The meeting of generations in the person of a private teacher of literature, an intellectual, impregnable, and open, courageous and honest student Sava, also turns out to be a meeting of pride and emancipation, and loneliness and belonging to one’s own layer of society. These parallel worlds are connected, by and large, only by the strongest passion, which is the main engine of this story.
Your tutor is also another duet of director Anton Kolomeets and cameraman Egor Kochubey, and the duo is certainly successful. The unity of the plot and image is felt. The image, by the way, is extremely naturalistic, and at the same time quite artistic, which, alas, is increasingly rare in domestic cinema. Although in some places the picture seems excessively faded, slurred, and, quite definitely, under-lit and under-maintained, the taste in it, however, is certainly present, as is the feeling of unanimity.
Overall, I consider the film a worthy directorial debut. A slight delay in the second half, and a certain search for genre - the qualities of the film, characteristic of the young director, did not prevent me from enjoying watching this poetic picture. For the sake of this pleasure, as well as for the sake of supporting such a rare phenomenon as high-quality domestic cinema, I recommend watching it.
7 out of 10
The young man Savva, while his parents left for Venice, studies with a tutor in foreign literature. Given that there are two roles in the film, melodrama cannot be avoided. And the poster of the film is not intriguing hints.
At a glance, such a story seems banal, but it is also remembered from the power of a couple of plots on this topic. A bad Soviet film Puppet and something else from the brave Soviet past. Oh yeah! I Am Myself talk show, where a teacher’s romance with a student and its appreciation by feminists and traditionalists surfaced in discussion. But it's from the thrash area. But the Doll was a dramatic story. Here, as it were, covered with the youthful romance of first love theme. . .
But it is solved strangely and ambiguously. As soon as you have time to smile a comment about social networks or funny dialogues in everyday life, as immediately hang puberty peeping through the half-open door. There are seemingly interesting characters with a more or less decently built psychology: an arrogant teacher with a claim to the non-literature and non-intellectuality of time and a quite modern, both romantic and sexually liberated world of youth (Savva is not a lonely character here). But instead of a slightly deeper drawing of the characters, the director strives to make "Beautiful" & #39; pauses in the spirit of clips of some Muz-TV. Or background heroines (she is still not a blank slate) scenes with a stupid admirer of Chase are replaced by slightly fake and inappropriate scenes with a neighbor (such curious ladies are rather left in the past or watch Let them talk), and with a hero-lover neighbor too. Subtlely played individual scenes (for example, with a contraceptive) rest on the confusion of the director (aka screenwriter) in the development of the main storyline. Finally, throwing in the genre is either an ironic melodrama, or a drama of growing up, or even a youth comedy. And, alas, that's not a compliment. Yes, and subtly walk along the boundary separating, what is there, vulgarity from erotic & #39; masterpieces & #39; cable channels from the romantic story of first love, also failed.
So the viewing of the film went in alternately cute smiles (less often - sarcastic grins, which is also good) and frowning glances from the screen.
It is easy to explain this - your tutor became the debut in the cinema of Anton Kolomeitsa, therefore, all these roughnesses, absurdities and bifurcation between the thin quality genre mainstream and the thick format of the evening session either on the channel Russia or on TNT. It remains to be hoped that the young man will not go to TV, and finally, along with his Savva, will graduate from the institute, and Madame Bovary (by the way, a rare and therefore pleasant literary-centricity in our cinema) will eradicate Chase and Barbara Cartland from his cinema.