galvanoliver Review of A Cruel Romance

A Cruel Romance (1984)

The story follows Larissa in a love triangle within the raznochintsy society.

[7/10 · 28 October 2015]

Overall, it was a good romantic movie. The reflections shots that were captured must have been very difficult to capture, but it really added to the camera work. Yes, this movie is mostly about a love triangle, but it gave insight to how life really was in Russian at this time. Women were often treated as property and this movie definitely demonstrates this with Larissa getting tossed back and forth between possible suitors. This movie also touched on the topic of people marrying for wealth not necessarily love. In the movie this happened with Larissa's sisters and including herself Overall, it demonstrated how life was like in the raznochintsy social class of Russia