Again, I will have to plead to being a slight Russophile when it comes to film; after FR, RU is, I'd argue the second greatest non-Anglophone film producing country out there...The first part of the movie introduces the 3 main protagonists chatting in an bar. The vaguely attractive prostitute Marina returns to her remote rural homeplace to attend a funeral. It is this sometimes outré sequence which takes up the greater part of the film and we learn only a little of what happens the other two.
It's an engaging (in places fascinating), articulate, original, offbeat, dimly lit, downbeat movie, with occasional sly humour. There are some interesting departures in this film; it surely deserves a higher rating on IMDB. Would probably have made it to annual top 5 had I seen it in a cinema. Makes me want to visit RU.
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