Director Ivan Dykhovichny talks about his new author’s film «Inhale-Exhale».
Psychologies: In the era of blockbusters, mega-special effects and superstars, you made a film about the separation of two people. With almost unknown artists…
Ivan Dykhovichny: Yes, there is only one such picture. The flickering frames have changed the essence; rhythm and brightness «wrap» the meaning. And in life there are situations when you need to speak directly, without subtext and irony. When you need not to look for forms, but simply to believe that everything is given to a person. We are not immortal, but we are free to control the world — our destiny, our life.
With what concept is this picture connected for you: “marriage”, “family”, “love”?
Basically with the concept of the relationship between a man and a woman. In the first place of the words you uttered here is “love”. For me, the important question is not family coexistence, but the possibility of an absolutely sincere relationship in love. What is it like to be together 24 hours a day? What is it like to fill someone else’s life with yourself — when a person is all in you, in your thoughts, feelings? Isn’t it stuffy? And when a person simply began to breathe his own air, to live his own life — is this not treason? And is that cheating? The film is about the relationship of people in the phase when they finally try to tell each other the truth. Directly and without hesitation. After all, it happens that in our entire life together we never speak with each other completely sincerely. We talk, but do not honestly admit what is happening to us.
And the writer Proust said that the other is basically unknowable.
But, if you understand that you cannot fully enter into the life of another, you can respect it. To save that priceless creature that was once found. After all, what is the main temptation? In what you think: is this relationship really the end of life? No, something more interesting might well be waiting for me around the corner. You do not believe that this is your person, that he needs to be saved. And I believe that harmony in relationships is possible. But only at the cost of a lot of work. After all, only when you spend yourself, you are happy. The energy of love returns to you.
Producer: Ivan Dykhovichny. Starring: Ekaterina Volkova, Igor Mirkurbanov, Olga Dykhovichnaya. At the box office from 4 of May.