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Kosima - Perfekt Naiv (2011)
Very strange movie
This very rare film from the head of the Swiss sectarians Ivo Sasek, is made about the topic of sexual education in elementary school, which is very relevant in Europe. As its creators explicitly hint, pedophiles have settled in the departments of education. They hired educators whose goal was to introduce a very harmful and destructive dogma about the early puberty of children. The victim of this teacher approach is young Cosima, the lovely child of a single farmer, withdrawn and angry because of the obstacles to the work of the European Union. Around her, this not quite ordinary, with a criminal aftertaste, story is twisted. But in vain teachers, as well as their advanced mentors, are trying to lead the beautiful, immaculate creature astray from the path of the true. After all, no evil can overcome childish naivety ...
Muzi v nadeji (2011)
Return of Tinto Brass
One of the most famous films of "Czech Tinto Brass" has a rather simple and straightforward plot. So, the plot scheme is as simple as a rake: husband, wife, mistress. The husband goes to the left, the wife goes to the right ... but this is only so that the feelings between the spouses flare up with renewed vigor and in the end they realized that they cannot live without each other. It is no coincidence that I mentioned the name of the Italian master of eroticism here - this is the scheme according to which almost all the films of the great Italian were shot. Jiri Veydelek confidently walks along the path long beaten by the classics of the genre - the red-haired freckled beast Vitsa Kerekesh starred in one of the main roles, but the whole film can be admired not only by her charms, but also by the picture where the composition of the frame is made flawlessly. On top of that, in Weidelek we find that human dimension of heroes and that warmth that even Tinto Brass does not have. It is all of the above that leaves a pleasant aesthetic aftertaste, like a good dinner in an old Prague restaurant. So if you do not have money for foreign travel, or are not allowed into Europe due to coronavirus restrictions, this is a great opportunity to walk, at least virtually, through the narrow streets of the Czech capital, visit the places of military glory of Petrov and Boshirov, breathe in the enchanting aromas of the famous Prague coffee shop...
The Good Doctor (2011)
Another Orlando Bloom
The good doctor is a story about what happens if a doctor, at his own discretion and arbitrariness, begins to interfere in the process of treating a patient. An 18-year-old patient with pyelonephritis, an infectious disease of the kidneys, comes to the novice therapist Martin Blake. And what happens is that our doctor begins to feel completely unprofessional feelings for the patient. In order to keep her in the hospital at least a little, he changes drugs and starts a very risky game with an unpredictable result. The famous Orlando Bloom appears here in a rather rare acting role - a maniac and a sociopath. In the supporting roles, it is beautifully set off by Michael Peña and J. K. Simmons. Together with the competent direction of the Irishman Lance Daley, the result was a wonderful psycho-thriller, very, very competently exploiting the fears of the ordinary man in front of modern medicine. Designed for a purely target audience - people who love smart independent films, where you need to speculate a lot yourself and draw your own conclusions based on what you watched. To all that has been said, it remains only to add that the rating of the film is undeservedly underestimated.
Tayozhnaya povest (1979)
Forgotten Silver
A top-class acting duo, perhaps in the most poignant film adaptation of Viktor Astafiev. In a deep forest, the hunter finds a dying girl. The illiterate Akim works wonders of ingenuity, saving the uninvited guest from death. But in order to survive, young people will need to leave the winter hut and go out to the people, which means they will fight death in the cold, cruel taiga ...
... In the distant summer of 1996, I read the book "Tsar-fish" not of my own free will. Just a strict literature teacher made us a reading list for the summer, and in the fall I and the whole class were to write an essay based on the book. Then I did not even suspect about the film adaptation, as well as the fact that the film would subsequently amaze the imagination and be remembered so much.
I must say that screenwriter Albina Shulgina created a real miracle from Astafyev's text, worthy of the greatest award. By the way, the book of V. P. Astafiev in 1978 was awarded the highest award of the USSR - the State Prize, albeit with significant censorship exemptions, which subsequently greatly affected the health of Viktor Petrovich, already undermined by the war. And a year later, the same adaptation of Vl. Fetina (real fam. Fetingof) is the director's penultimate film, only this can explain its great quality. Filming a movie in an acute shortage of funds and time pressure. Apparently, for this reason, the so-called. "Moscow scenes", for which Tatyana Piletskaya was invited to the role of the mother of the main character. Contrary to popular misconception on the Web, the film is not based solely on the events of the chapter "Dream of the White Mountains." It would be more correct to say that it was filmed based on the entire story of "Tsar Fish", which is clearly stated in the opening credits. For example, Akim's famous monologue "Why did my mother give birth to me? .." is borrowed from the chapter "Wake". As it happened with the literary source, the film was pretty battered by the Soviet censors (Astafyev even claimed that he was put "on the shelf"). At the box office, it was shown with bills, and in the post-Soviet period several minutes of timing "disappeared" from it (the scenes are mainly associated with Goga Gertsev). An attentive viewer will surely notice that the key scene with the overturning of the raft into the icy water is missing from the film. Subsequently, the taiga masterpiece was safely forgotten - and only this can explain that it has never been restored or published on DVD.
The music for the film was written by the legendary Soviet composer Solovyov-Sedoy (the last work for the cinema). This work was carried out during a period of serious illness, and the composer did not live to see the premiere for only a month. By the way, in the scene with the feast in the winter quarters, where Elya turns the radio up louder, a slightly modified melody of "Moscow Nights" is heard - one of the most recognizable motifs of the 20th century, which became the call sign of the radio "Mayak". This is a rather subtle allusion to the merits, without a doubt, of the great melodist, who has worked very successfully with Vladimir Fetin in recent years.
The Tale belongs to a number of outstanding adaptations of Russian classical prose. She practically has no equal neither in the genre of an acting duet, nor in the genre of films on the taiga theme. She, one might say, has no analogues in both Soviet and post-Soviet cinema.
And further. Perhaps the most important thing. This is a very Russian film.