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Anatomy of intimate unity. Another Year Review

Image Touching in its simplicity and accessibility, the domestic romcom “Another Year” may seem boring and unnecessary for those who are not tuned in to a certain wave. Lovers - too mundane, hipsters - not fashionable enough, fans of the radical arthouse - too straightforward and unworthy of deep analysis involving all the powers of erudition.

But this film will be a real find for those who yearned for a cozy movie about the same"intimate unity", about which the hero of Robin Williams spoke to the hero of Matt Damon in the brilliant film "Good Will Hunting". Perhaps we have been expecting something like this from domestic filmmakers (and almost desperate to wait) since the release of Inadequate People ...

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Oksana Bychkova, known as the director of another pleasant film "Peter FM", for her new work took as a basis the play by Alexander Volodin Don't part with your loved ones . It was about a couple who fled because of nonsense. The heroes of “Another Year” - Egor (Alexey Filimonov) and Zhenya (Nadezhda Lumpova) are also getting divorced because of nonsense. Either they are too young, and their love, respectively, is not yet quite love and is based on sex. Either life got stuck, smashed a love boat, and neither the new wallpaper nor the joint viewing of films by Krzysztof Kieslowski saved. It doesn't matter why they broke up or what happened next. It is important that these two did not notice how they let the outside world into their intimate unity with all its conventions: who in the family earn money,
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That is, their marriage at the time of the development of this story was at the stage when the fireworks of endorphins had already died down, but there was still not enough wisdom to accept a new form of love. Plus youth, ambition, ego and, in the end, lack of experience. Bychkova with her naive style of storytelling managed to very accurately capture and convey precisely this transitional state, when one careless word can cancel out all efforts and trigger irreversible separation mechanisms.

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The cleanliness of the actors' faces, coupled with a light, but at the same time slightly nervous game, more reminiscent of the behavior of people under the gaze of a reality show camera, did their job in terms of identifying the viewer. Thanks to Nadezhda and Alexey everything here is very familiar and understandable. The old mattress, this bed of love stuffed with memories - go to the trash heap! Arrogant boyfriends with their unpretentious tackles - the forest!

Pseudo-bohemian corporate parties, the wounded pride of a young bombila, a plentiful feast with relatives with entrails for a snack - we all went through this in one form or another, at one time or another of our lives. As if in contrast to the feast, we are shown youth gatherings with indispensable conversations about contemporary art. But it turns out that this is not any opposition, but the transfer of the baton. Bychkova unobtrusively makes it clear that there is no terrible, irreparable difference between the characters. The reason they decided to get divorced is nonsense and tinsel. The treasure of life. Only intimate unity and its inviolability are valuable.

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Even the code words and expressions that Zhenya and Egor came up with for use in their world - these are the same "cats" and "zai" of fans of tripe, but in a new way. For the modern viewer, the language of the main characters' relations rhymes with something damn pleasant from what happened to him on the love front or is happening right now. And he stopped noticing it ..." Zheka , return the f * ck"and"Give your armpit a kiss"are a kind of spells that when used correctly, they drive away the evil spirits of everyday life and return their names to things.

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In general, of course, this is a film about love. But not about love as some kind of absolute from films and books, which happens only before the wedding, and after it turns into a faded simulacrum. “Another Year” is a painting about love, which after the wedding does not disappear anywhere, but simply stops concentrating near the genitals and begins to inhabit another space. And at this time, the main thing is not to let her slip through your fingers, not to squander it on nonsense. And how it is done - the film does not give answers. To understand, it takes not another year, but much, much more ...

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Author: Jake Pinkman


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