The Crimean Bridge. Made with Love!
Tigran Keosayan is in certain terms quite critical about Russian cinema. He likes good old Soviet-styles comedies and he hates masterpieces like Leviathan.With considerable public funding he made a feel-good film which the Russian state supported as socially useful goals and ensuring public interests and interests of the state. On the other hand the makers declared that this was an unpolitical. Now what? An unpolitical comedy in the interest of the state? Can we really have it both ways?
The film starts in 1945 at the temporary Soviet bridge on the Crimea. Damir and Raya are separated, but they promise each other to see each other at the bridge every year. Leap to present day Crimea. Russia is building the permanent bridge. Tikhon, a journalist and intellectual, as identified by his spectacles is writing an article about the project. He is confused, but also gullible. He thinks there is resistance against the Russian occupation, but this is a misinterpretation. Actually he is denounced as a Ukrainian spy.
The main heroes of this film are "bedhoppers". There goal is to score te hottest chick and never to sleep twice with the same girl. The girls on the side are dreaming of Prince Charming with or without white horse. So an out-worn cliché. It is somewhat chocking that this soup of old vegetables was cooked together by a woman, Margarita Simonyan, the wife of the director. This is her first attempt to write a film script. Small episodes replace a plot. At last all heroes and heroins find their new home. Even Damir finds Raya again. As they embrace on the bridge, we pan out to see the construction.
Even Russian reviews were very negative. Tigran Keosayan called them "sick". He can call me sick, too. The Crimean Bridge appeals to macho humour and in this world are men the only ones who matter. Even worse the glorification of the Stalin era. A film nobody needs.
1/10
Tigran Keosayan is in certain terms quite critical about Russian cinema. He likes good old Soviet-styles comedies and he hates masterpieces like Leviathan.With considerable public funding he made a feel-good film which the Russian state supported as socially useful goals and ensuring public interests and interests of the state. On the other hand the makers declared that this was an unpolitical. Now what? An unpolitical comedy in the interest of the state? Can we really have it both ways?
The film starts in 1945 at the temporary Soviet bridge on the Crimea. Damir and Raya are separated, but they promise each other to see each other at the bridge every year. Leap to present day Crimea. Russia is building the permanent bridge. Tikhon, a journalist and intellectual, as identified by his spectacles is writing an article about the project. He is confused, but also gullible. He thinks there is resistance against the Russian occupation, but this is a misinterpretation. Actually he is denounced as a Ukrainian spy.
The main heroes of this film are "bedhoppers". There goal is to score te hottest chick and never to sleep twice with the same girl. The girls on the side are dreaming of Prince Charming with or without white horse. So an out-worn cliché. It is somewhat chocking that this soup of old vegetables was cooked together by a woman, Margarita Simonyan, the wife of the director. This is her first attempt to write a film script. Small episodes replace a plot. At last all heroes and heroins find their new home. Even Damir finds Raya again. As they embrace on the bridge, we pan out to see the construction.
Even Russian reviews were very negative. Tigran Keosayan called them "sick". He can call me sick, too. The Crimean Bridge appeals to macho humour and in this world are men the only ones who matter. Even worse the glorification of the Stalin era. A film nobody needs.
1/10
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