We, it seems, is the last country of European culture, where there are still gathered holidays. Let us be flickering, but we accept congratulations on the “female day” from the surrounding men. But the cinema repulses this act of public hypocrisy. And in two versions.
The inertia of tradition is worthy of only irony. This is what – irony – captivates the festive comedy “Mom”, almanac of eight novels taken by young directors. Novels are only connected by the fact that on March 8, mobile communications and men from different age and social categories (from a child to a wealthy uncle and an intellectual to a telephone fraudster) are forced to find a way to convey congratulations to mothers to mothers. Despite the selection of actors who are promoted, “mothers” do not fall into the “Russian pop”: here you laugh even at the cliches themselves, in which our stars are so comically mired.
Directors: Tikhon Kornev, Dmitry Dyuzhev, Ashot Kescheyan, Karen Oganesyan, Sarik Andreasyan, Eldar Salavatov, Evgeny Abyzov, Alan Badoev.Cast: Leah Akhedzhakova, Ekaterina Vasilieva, Marina Golub, Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, Nina Ruslanova, Sergey Bezrukov, Yegor Beroev, Igor Vernik, Dmitry Dyuzhev, Gosha Kutsenko, Mikhail Porechenkov, Peter Fedorov.
“Bedouin”
In the picture of one of the most peculiar (and therefore contradictory) Russian filmmakers there is no shade of congratulations. He took off the drama about female power. The daughter of the heroine of leukemia. It is clear that in modern domestic conditions its life needs to be redeemed – astronomically, pay for medicines. But Rita goes on – life can be sold and. New life. And Rita decides on surrogate motherhood. But from now on she is in the power of rock – everything that happens to her is dictated by chance. At the same time, it is important that Voloshin’s plot accidents were not “roofed in the bushes”, but the screen projection of the absolute
impossibility for the ordinary of our compatriot to manage his fate – after all, the state is not a mechanism for servicing society, but a closed corporation. As a result, the heroine of Bedouin in the face of her grief is completely lonely: a system that gave rise to the inability to save her daughter leaves her open to all the winds. And you know, watching this film on the days of a voyable hysteria will be right. Because the truth is the best gift anyway. Which, by the way, also proves New Year’s-nomenclature Sergey Svetlakov in the amazing role of a doctor who is desperately trying to cure Ritin’s daughter. His presence speaks even more: the truth itself is the holiday.
Director: Igor Voloshin.Cast: Olga Simonova, Mikhail Evlanov, Sergey Svetlakov, Dinara Drukarova.