At a drunken village wedding, two people suddenly met eyes. Pavel and Vera looked at each other, and in an instant everything else ceased to exist. It was such a different feeling that they couldn't understand what had happened to them and didn't know what to do next. Moreover, Vera had a husband, Valera, and a little daughter, Masha. And then Pavel, still not understanding anything, decided that it was necessary to act, and then he could figure it out.
If the pastoral drama by one of the leaders of the modern Russian theater, Ivan Vyrypaev, who made his film debut with it, is worthy of some kind of award, it is the "Best Location" prize. True, there is no such thing, but the views in Euphoria are stunning, easily bypassing Andrei Zvyagintsev's "Return" and Terry Gilliam's "Land of Tides". What are the waves of a wheat field, taken from a bird's-eye view, with an old Moskvich driving through them! The visual range is generally the strongest thing in the picture. Almost every frame is worth putting on your desktop. Looking at all this, as Evgeny Grishkovets said, we simply have to smile blissfully and say: "What a beauty!". The cameraman seemed to simply revel in the babble surrounding him – the hills, the river, and even the picturesque ravine where Vera and Paul's explanation takes place. Against the backdrop of pristine nature, people seem superfluous. Especially when they talk so unnaturally, like the characters in Euphoria.
Vyrypaev apparently decided that by flooding the speech of the characters in the film with all these "what" and "in short", laced with obscenities, behind which one can still hear the "sorry" not spoken out loud, he would give realism to the dialogues and make real villagers out of Pavel, Vera and Valera. An idea that was doomed to failure in advance. And it's not even that Polina Agureeva, who is somewhat similar to Drubich - with her higher humanitarian education, well–groomed hands and neatly trimmed pubis (yes, erotomaniacs can rejoice - Vyrypaev's nudity topic is fully revealed) – does not attract a girl who lives in the middle of a field three hours away from the nearest settlement. the item. Even if by some miracle he managed to find actors who looked like the real "salt of the earth", theatrics would still come from everywhere. And of course, everything would be understandable after Vera's absolutely superfluous monologue about gray mud, in which she becomes like some kind of Chekhov's languid young lady, who in five minutes will start wringing her hands and wailing about how boring everything is.
By the way, yes, it's boring. Personally, I broke down in the 55th minute. And here it is worth mentioning the main advantage of the film – it is incredibly, just record short. Although it's not worth thanking Vyrypaev for this, because, of course, he didn't put half of the footage under the knife at all. Informieren Sie sich über aktuelle Ziehungen der glücksspirale .
