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A shot from Ivan Vyrypaeva new film” Salvation. ” Photo from the official website of the festival “Kinotavr”

 

The program “Kinotavr”, like any other festival of Russian cinema can not be called smooth – strong and mature work side by side with the debut or simply unsuccessful pictures. However, the reaction of the audience to guess, and even more so the jury – not an easy task. For example, Alexei Guskov, starring in the film Victor Dement “Nakhodka”, more like the TV series, here is one of the main contenders for the title of best actor.

  
 
  
 

The competition Guskov can make except that Alexander Yatsenko, with the film “Insight” – tape memorable not only for playing the main role. In the case of newcomer Dement and his “finds” quite the opposite. Guskov plays a water-bailiff, who lives in the forest on the shore of the pond next cold (recently favorite landscape Russian Cinematographers). He hardly talks to his wife for something mortally offended at her, and all the anger vents on poachers. Once received, in retaliation for an overturned pot of soup on the head with an oar, a man is without a boat in the middle of snow-covered forest, where should now be selected on foot, but still not one. In his lodge for a surprise in the form of abandoned babies who Guskov now carries through the snowdrifts to the house. At first it seems that it is this silent and full of difficulties and will be devoted to travel movie, but the story ends with a child long before the final – and begins like a completely different movie. Alternatively, the second episode of the television series in which a stern character Guskov, instead of silence to wrinkle the forehead and complaining unintelligible under his breath at the wickedness unfolds noisy and active operation to search for a negligent mother. Why did the author needed such a long, confusing plot, then shot out of a snowdrift, the helicopter remains a mystery, as the result, the film is a fairly simple story of Christian forgiveness.

  
 
  
 

The Bible in general religious themes and motifs in this year’s “Kinotavr” in high esteem. Get at least a “guest” of Denis Rodimin: screenwriter movie “Duhless” and “Boomer” will debut as a director with the film a great movie about the second coming of Christ on the territory of Central Russia. A striking example of how even the presence of the frame is not the most untalented people – the same Rodimin and brilliant operator Oleg Lukichev, and producer Sabine Eremeeva – can lead to failure. A pair of scientists (the actors Catherine Steblina and Arnaz Fedaravichus) wandering through the woods, where the newly fallen meteorite whether, or something else. That something as soon realize the characters, he became the Savior, who now need to find and send to Moscow for tests. Then there are the water turned into wine and the resurrection of the dead, and everything else on the list – in addition to common sense. The creators, however, for his film, cause hysterical laughter of some viewers are taken seriously – say, young people today do not read the Bible and talk about it should be in plain language. And then, contradicting its own installation, refer to the genre of his film’s mysterious word “ekotriller”, but in reality at all immersed the audience into the depths of the sci-fi farce based on the Gospel.

  
 
  The new film by Ivan Vyrypaeva “Salvation”, stylistically not very different from the previous work of the author (“Euphoria” and “Oxygen”), tells the story of a young Polish nun Anna (Polina Grishina). She will serve in his new parish church, which is located high in the Himalayas in Tibet. Arriving at their destination, she first tries to cure altitude sickness prayer and aspirin, and then sent to explore the area, to look at the local monks and Buddha statues and okolofilosofskie conduct interviews with all the counter. One of them is with the actress Karolina Gruszka with dreadlocks and wearing a turban takes a good 15 minutes, and reduced to a lengthy thought that the way to salvation – in getting rid of the internal vacuum collecting sins. “You’re not a vacuum cleaner!” – Almost shouts the umpteenth time on the screen Gruszka, then get confused and tired as much as the audience nun Anna covers her face with her hands and goes on his way. By the end, she, of course, will come to the church, god, salvation, and the audience will listen to many more “masterful” written by playwright Vyrypaev dialogue in the spirit of “Buddhism for Dummies.” Listened in the truest sense – all the heroes of the film English language voiceover saying the director himself. Who heard will understand.