Jelena
Regie:
Andrey ZvyagintsevCamera:
Mikhail KrichmanMuziek:
Philip GlassActeurs:
Nadezhda Markina, Elena Lyadova, Andrey Smirnov, Andrey Zolotukhin, Yaroslav Zhalnin, Igor Ogurtsov, Igor Yurtaev, Yuriy Borisov, Vasiliy Prokopev (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Een bejaarde vrouw woont samen met haar rijke man in een ruime villa. Alles is echter geen rozengeur en maneschijn. De vrouw heeft immers maar één zorg: haar alcoholistische zoon en diens gezin te redden van de nakende armoede. (Contact Film)
Recensie (2)
A very harsh portrait of Russian reality of everyday life, which at the end knocks the audience off their feet. But only if they accept the incredibly dragged direction from the beginning, which shows every little detail to create the right atmosphere until it gets lost in endlessly long shots. Anyhow, this movie is quite a faithful portrait of reality. You will tell yourself that some people have such fates that even a screenwriter couldn’t come up with that. Yelena is an exception.
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A banal story, a bad script, and a cultivated directorial concept. Zvjagincev deeply disappointed me with his inability to tell the emotional side of the story alongside the visual - it’s no wonder, as the story is so naïve and flat that there is no room for emotions. Based on the magnificent The Return, the director deeply disappointed me. Elena is not lousy, but it is a very mediocre film.
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