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A slice of Russian life... thick as a thick Ukrainian borsht

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Victor Khomenko

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I seem to recall someone posting on "La Noce" before, but can't find any traces.
The 2000 Russian film is a riot. There are some guys here who dig that stuff, so they will enjoy this raw and crude presentation which places normal people into colorless and hopeless surrounding, and then lets them behave as they want... the result is rewarding, but almost bizarre.
Bizarre it might be, but amazingly it is actually true to the subject, even if the story is a bit contrived. You can go to any number of small Russian towns today and find people just like that.
This is definitely not the Moscow life one sees in many recent polished Russian films, and that makes film more than worth getting for your buck-fifty - at the very least you will walk away wondering how people manage to preserve their humanity in such a pressure cooker...

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Talk about borscht soup.... - millen 22:44:30 09/26/06 (0)
The best borscht soup that I've eaten was the one made by my Doukhobor girlfriend's mother. Man that was so good I could have eaten the bowl with it. All the ingredients were handmade from scratch including the the sour dough of which were lighty toasted and rub with gralic oil to taste. Ok. Victor back to our normal programming.
Okay, I'll add it... Now, to the sublime: since you so much - tinear 13:23:06 09/26/06 (2)
appreciate "Forbidden Games," run, don't walk and rent "The Children are Watching Us," by De Sica.
It should be on those best of all time lists. Near the top. It has the impact of "Madame Bovary" or "Anna Karenina."
Not much to say except it's a masterwork by an artist of the highest caliber.
- I've already done that... - Victor Khomenko 13:29:48 09/26/06 (1)
  It is one of those movies that I think I have seen, based on the description, but can't quite recall. So I stuck it between the two Seinfelds...
  - I think you'd recall this one better? I just keep recalling so many - tinear 04:53:46 09/27/06 (0)
    scenes from it, days later.
    The gentleman that plays the father is... remarkable. I can't think of a more difficult role to "bring off" but he does so with strength, feeling, and humanity.
    The little boy is astonishingly good.
    The wife? We'll discuss her later...

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