Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

bricslove But is this the only way? Should this be the only way? (disclaimer: my reviews are mostly reviews of content. especially with movies like this. to me, style is secondary to content.)The inevitable becomes learned somewhere along the way. Desperate isolation becomes self-inflicted. No wonder this should happen soon after that very self gave up on watching. And no wonder the self gave up on it: It had taken for granted what was temporarily its. The self just watches, most of the time, without ever making a point of it. However only when you make a point of it will you be wary of the expectations you have forged and were not able to nourish. Life, love, the will and power to share... are not yours to keep. It is a garden that will perish in your hands, while you have been looking through it at elsewhere. Until of course, you start feeding it....This movie was one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. This is 10+more stars for me. Something else.Although it's been months since I watched the movie, I am still overwhelmed by its honesty, sadness, silent SOS alarms, and beauty.I had no problems marveling at the composition of scenes even as I was getting immersed in it more by the minute.No abuse of emotions through soundtrack, which would be OK in other circumstances. Cold and bare, honest, as everything else in the movie.There was a scene that this movie burned in my brain, a scene that I will never forget. The way I see it, a fantasy science fiction movie can convey the real better than a skewed and biased account of history. Given that, the more real a movie, the more heartbreaking it is. And reality is not conveyed just by plot content. It is conveyed by how the plot is executed and the execution depends on the choices of the director and the screen writer, and being honest with these choices. Choices, in turn, depend on what push these people to write these lines and shoot these flicks. Their motivation to shoot that particular movie. That raw need.The reality conveyed to me by the scenes in this move, some very very heartbreaking scenes, is that isolation does not feed mankind. This era, teaching us that selfish individualism is freedom and that we are solely responsible of what happens to us, encouraging us to make more superficial contact only to get instant approval at the cost of losing our touch and empathy and therefore sympathy, and passing all this off as "modern cultural values"... does not feed us. It is, in fact, killing us and it grooms us for this job first. We accept to be a part of it, thinking we have no other way.What makes this movie special for me is this most sincere social commentary as made obvious by the choices of the makers of the movie as to what to dwell on. And that then dictates how long to use a scene, or a music piece, or silence, which angle to use, when to zoom in on a face and when to pan out. I was a case of success. The movie managed to talk to me. I can see what the director's been trying to say. Execution brought the content higher.The whole story is also a breathtaking pun for the parallel course Russia's fate has taken in this era of destruction of social ties, exposure to transformation by degeneration, and the consequential losses.A beautiful movie from a beutiful director, calling us to our senses, trying to shakes this barren earth of apathy off of us. ... So... No, this shouldn't always be so, it doesn't always have to come to this:Lovelessness breeds more of itself and its ilk: think of a lexicon of words here. Do not, however, make the mistake of assuming you have none left to give. Save it for the worthy, instead. Especially, all your children. Your and others' future. Force that mirror in your faces. It can only get better.

elenastolyarova I was talked into going to watch this movie by friends. Well what can I say. Two hours of my life I won't get back. Dull. Boring. Depressing. I read Imdb raving reviews before going to watch it and was bitterly disappointed. I didn't see any deep meaning or much intelligence in this movie. But saw a lot of unnecessary nudity which does not tie with the rest of the movie. To me it looked like the director was afraid that nobody will watch it without nude scenes. And possibly he was right. Another thing as Russian born woman I was insulted by the image of Russian women which was portrayed there. The main character was just a cold mega bitch, another female character was a pathetic needy damsel in distress, older lady was just plain bonkers. Main male character was bleak and boring. I didn't see any deep meaning just a very dull depressing movie with unsatisfying ending which leaves just one thought in your head: here is two hours of my life I will never get back.

ronreed28 Is there any English speaking versions of this movie .they all seem to be either Russian or French.

Andres-Camara It's a pity, when movies like that, they could be better and they stay in less. The movie is fine. The best, for me of the nominees in its category. But that beginning of several minutes without telling anything, landscapes and landscapes and not having taken more advantage of the child and a few moments, stops the film, make that being a movie that is good, do not get where you should have arrived.I've heard it many times and I'm sure that all that much also, that plane of the crying child is great. But it is also very well rolled. Not only has the child been crying, but also putting the mother in a part of the house to use to choreograph the child, following her with the camera. It is that it is very well thought out and realized. And seeing the boy with that face is brutal.It has a great picture. It can not be more frigid. Like the movie itself. It makes you cold. Sometimes it's too dark but great. It gets you not only in history, but also in that environment and civilization.The actors are great almost always. There is a moment that has disappointed me. When we see the father crying sitting and can not see his face, that scene, the actors fall, I do not know if the actor did not know how to do it or if the director has not been able to shoot it, but see an actor that is leaving the soul and record him without seeing him, it is a pity.There is too much sex in the movie. He does not paint anything and the sex scenes extend a lot. The director does not finish convincing me. I could have made a much better movie. He does not know how to always keep the rhythm of the movie. The movie is something distant. He does not know how to position the camera.Anyway, it's a movie to watch it