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In Reply to: How many of you have seen "Little Vera"? posted by Victor Khomenko on July 04, 2003 at 07:32:04:
Victor,
I thought that was pretty grim and humorless; I took a date and she said "What a bleak and loveless place..."
I thought it was an interesting enough slice of life tho' I couldn't help but agree with her
I would also suspect that film is no longer so contemporary; a friend recently returned from St. Petersburg and says the place is booming, real estate is at Parisian level to buy or rent and the place seemed very upbeat and commercial, an impression you don't get from "Little Vera"
The 80's were pretty bad for a lot of people everywhere, some of Mike Leighs films from the same era of the UK are just as bleak
Eric
Follow Ups:
Hi Eric,I wish you were right about the film not being relevant today... unfortunately the opposite is true.
The booming St. Petersburg (I go there twice a year) is not how the great majority of people live.
For most of them the life today is even harder and bleaker than one shown in that film. Since then the society had gone through tremendous polarization, something it didn't have back then, and today the miserable are more miserable.
On the positive side, even in that bleak atmosphere not everyone lives like that - and that guy Victor in the film is one such example. He left his ghetto behind, so to speak. So there is that silver lining.
Small, but still.
We surely didn't live like that either. But the life, as presented in the film, is extremely real for millions of hard working Russians.
As I remenber Little Vera was the type of movie that was not posible before Gorbachev...... I sould see it..........
RubenSan Francisco, California
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