Finally, a film has appeared that seriously tries to answer the challenges of our time in the form of a comic melodrama.
1. “Romkom” about the Ministry of Economy. Finally, a film has appeared that seriously tries to answer the challenges of our time in the form of a comic melodrama. In other words, he quite ironically talks about a romance that happened in a certain estate-reserve between a poor literary critic and therefore a natural oppositionist and a major ministerial official. Along with the novel, there is also a dialogue of cultures – the Russian state elite and a normal person, who lives quite poorly in this Russia.
2. And officials know how to love. The director of the film, a person who is not far from the intellectual echelons of power, decided to impart quite human, touching and sweet features to today’s state official. What is know-how in a situation where we seem to have our own authorities for the advanced part of the population (see LiveJournal and twitter), state ideologists talk to society through books (see Natan Dubovitsky’s novel Near Zero), and all this does not affect emotional situation in the country, nor on her life. Smirnova decided to explain to the viewer that these people are also people and there is nothing to demonize them – a rather bold act of the author.
Avdotya Smirnova, screenwriter, film director, winner of the Kinotavr award in the Best Debut nomination for the film Communication (2006). Together with Tatyana Tolstaya, she hosts the School of Scandal program on the NTV channel.
3. “Uncle Fedya” was not eaten by the “bear”. The big boss played by Fyodor Bondarchuk is a realist, but not a cynic, educated, delightfully charming, capable of a great sense and sense of justice. It is curious that Bondarchuk, who once almost became the face of United Russia, conveys something personal through this role – his own understanding of proximity to power and a sober look at this matter.
CAST: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Ksenia Rappoport, Irina Rozanova, Andrey Smirnov.
Victoria Belopolskaya