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  • Indiamore

    ★★★★

  • Anna and Elizabeth

    ★★★★

  • Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story

    ★★★★★

  • Girlhood

    ★★★★½

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  • Indiamore

    Indiamore

    ★★★★

    This film is perfect for music nerds to extract some inspiration from the revolutionary approach to harmony. This is a wonderful piece of art when you break it down to small details and look at them through a specific angle, mostly sonically. The harmony skills of Chassol are undeniable and he can always pick up an unexpectable part of the speech, noisy Indian environment or some next a capella song from a taxi driver or street musician. "Music Is My…

  • Anna and Elizabeth

    Anna and Elizabeth

    ★★★★

    There should be a remake for this film because this is somewhat old and not very stylish, but the idea is just so perfect for a psychological drama focusing on crowd psychology.

    Everything here calls for a remake. This film is not bad though.

    7.5/10

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  • July Rain

    July Rain

    ★★★★½

    A fellow Russian here. When I was 16, I've seen "Мне двадцать лет" by Marlen Khutsiev and I liked it, although I didn't appreciate it to the fullest extent.

    But taking a look at this film today, this particular piece have created a cognitive dissonance with such of what I thought untypical way to make a film in the Soviet Union. It is a truly universal, a European film which resembles much from Italian Neorealism & French New Wave — with…

  • Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story

    Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story

    ★★★★★

    What an amusing satire of bureaucracy! Although for a film like this the translation is very important, hence I'm afraid that some typically Soviet official eloquence might get lost in English translation, so God knows if the quality is on point in English. The film is in Georgian, but Russian translation is funny and feels like an original.

    Pretty much the light comedy version of "The Fool" by Yuri Bykov.

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