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Living with a Russian twist to chill Europe
Published: 25 January, 2012, 13:52
Living directed by Vasily Sigarev (image from filmfestivalrotterdam.com)
Russians have a reputation for painting the bleak reality of everyday life in art. The latest is a film about death entitled “Living” directed by up-and-coming Russian filmmaker Vasily Sigarev.
His drama is vying for top honours at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
The creator of the award-winning social drama Wolfy, Sigarev's second feature is set in the middle of nowhere, in a wintry Russian province.
The movie revolves around several characters. A mother who wants to reunite with her twin daughters, a young newly wed couple, and a boy looking to see his estranged father, despite his mother's protests. Each of these characters experiences death of loved ones and has to learn to live without them.
The Russian filmmaker made his name as the author of realistic plays written in the ‘new drama’ tradition. In Living, Sigarev tackles an eternal question: Can our sorrows ever be healed?
The Rotterdam Film Festival runs for the next two weeks until February 5.
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Bleak painting style, melancholic poetic literature and films with sad endings are things which give Russia’s culture its amazing edge. I do not see anything wrong with this. This image is sublime!