Good theater outside. Strictly speaking, a benefit is a dedication to one actor. He performs key moments mainly from classics. And all this within one scene, with a minimum of interior, without plein air. Reading the description of the tape may seem boring and meaningless. But -- it's all about execution.
' You wished for glory and achieved... I wanted to fall in love and fell in love - Oleg Ivanovich Borisov sparks Mephistopheles' speech. That's his subject. He could portray the madness of power.
But, after a while, we get quite another, simple-minded: under what sauce pike do not serve - it is still pike" or " What is this soup? You just poured water into a cup? '
Here and porridge from an axe, and Chichikov, talking with the Box, and a lot of other things, sharp, sweet and kind. Oleg Borisov presents this spectacularly, masterfully, captivating the viewer in a tour of our classics.
In his memoirs, Borisov noted that cinema is a chain of mirages, dreams. It can be mounted indefinitely and never find the only necessary gluing. Sometimes it is even more interesting to watch unassembled material. Theatre is something more coarse, definite. Due to the mixing of styles, this film can hardly be called either a direct theatrical project or a cinematic project. It was an experiment. Probably, this project, translated into a cinematic format, was aimed, among other things, at popularizing the classics.
The director of this film was Yuri Borisov, the son of a great actor. And in one of the roles his brother, with whom he did not communicate for almost two decades - Lev Borisov. And all the attention of these incredibly talented people was focused on Oleg Ivanovich. Here everything was presented so that the tone was set by only one person.
And what a lovely scene in which one brother says to the other: What to talk to you? What do you understand? Where are you from and where? Who knows? They may have shared their past disagreements with the audience. The more valuable is the irritation of Oleg and the perplexity of Leo.
Later, Yuri Borisov will direct another similar project - "I'm bored, demon", offering a mixture of cinema and theater based on the story of Faust. The film will be much more experimental, akin to the work of Peter Greenaway. But "Swan Song" is permeated with classicism. Showing a high class and going through significant monologues, the actor shows us characters and situations, as if saying goodbye to the mass audience.
7 out of 10