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A story about love between a Italian guy and a Russian guyA story about love between a Italian guy and a Russian guyA story about love between a Italian guy and a Russian guy
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Interesting movie with incredible potential that fails to deliver
I bought this movie, because I really enjoyed the trailer and expected a profound and poetic exploration of cross-cultural gay love and homophobia in Russia.
Unfortunately, the movie fails to deliver. At 75 minutes, it's a rather short movie and compressed time is one of the major disadvantages of the movie, as it barely leaves any time to flesh out the characters and the story, as the scenes itself linger at a slower pace as well.
Making matters worse is that the filmmakers decided to embed a silent movie as a gimmick into the film that disrupts the flow of the main story several times and goes on for far too long, stealing screen time from the romance between Vladimir and Massimo that should have been fleshed out instead. I'm sure the silent movie is supposed to have a point, but it doesn't come across very well and takes you out of the main story of the movie.
In voice-overs, Massimo ponders about the significance of his romance with Vladimir, unfortunately we see very little of it play out on screen, so it's hard to get invested in their story or to understand what kind of impact it has on Massimo. Scenes in which they interact are very brief and instead of scenes that document their blossoming romance, we switch between scenes with their short interactions, a silent movie within the film and shots of Massimo looking longingly into the ocean, offering his philosophical insights in voice over.
Not all is bad though, despite obviously being a movie with a very low-budget, there is some really nice cinematography throughout the movie, the classical background music is breathtakingly beautiful and lead actor Giuseppe Claudio Insilco is very nice to look at with his innocent smile and his often exposed muscular body. The voice-over monologues might be a little bit heavy-handed, trying too hard to be meaningful, but there also some very poignant bits in Massimo's endless parades of monologues.
In the end, this is a movie with a lot of interesting ideas that could have made for a compelling and poignant movie, but the execution disappoints severely, as everything feels underdeveloped.
Unfortunately, the movie fails to deliver. At 75 minutes, it's a rather short movie and compressed time is one of the major disadvantages of the movie, as it barely leaves any time to flesh out the characters and the story, as the scenes itself linger at a slower pace as well.
Making matters worse is that the filmmakers decided to embed a silent movie as a gimmick into the film that disrupts the flow of the main story several times and goes on for far too long, stealing screen time from the romance between Vladimir and Massimo that should have been fleshed out instead. I'm sure the silent movie is supposed to have a point, but it doesn't come across very well and takes you out of the main story of the movie.
In voice-overs, Massimo ponders about the significance of his romance with Vladimir, unfortunately we see very little of it play out on screen, so it's hard to get invested in their story or to understand what kind of impact it has on Massimo. Scenes in which they interact are very brief and instead of scenes that document their blossoming romance, we switch between scenes with their short interactions, a silent movie within the film and shots of Massimo looking longingly into the ocean, offering his philosophical insights in voice over.
Not all is bad though, despite obviously being a movie with a very low-budget, there is some really nice cinematography throughout the movie, the classical background music is breathtakingly beautiful and lead actor Giuseppe Claudio Insilco is very nice to look at with his innocent smile and his often exposed muscular body. The voice-over monologues might be a little bit heavy-handed, trying too hard to be meaningful, but there also some very poignant bits in Massimo's endless parades of monologues.
In the end, this is a movie with a lot of interesting ideas that could have made for a compelling and poignant movie, but the execution disappoints severely, as everything feels underdeveloped.
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- Speasha8
- Jun 1, 2016
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