The latest feature from Russian Writer/Director, Alexey Balabanov, uses a semi-mythical story as the trigger for a somewhat surreal road movie. After Sanya, “The Bandit” brutally kills a group of people who greet him, he bumps into musician Oleg. Persuading him to go for beer and salted fish, Sanya tells him of “the bell tower of happiness”, a church in the middle of a radiation zone that apparently arbitrarily transports people to happier times.
The film begins with a clip of the TV show “Amazing People” being filmed live before switching to the programme being shown on a bar TV where we meet Oleg (Oleg Garkusha) before he leaves to purchase Fir Tree Oil and bumps into Sanya (Aleksandr Mosin). Their conversations reveal humanity is due to end in a year but Balabanov deliberately never makes it clear why or how, besides vague references to a TV show and the Mayan Calendar.
The film begins with a clip of the TV show “Amazing People” being filmed live before switching to the programme being shown on a bar TV where we meet Oleg (Oleg Garkusha) before he leaves to purchase Fir Tree Oil and bumps into Sanya (Aleksandr Mosin). Their conversations reveal humanity is due to end in a year but Balabanov deliberately never makes it clear why or how, besides vague references to a TV show and the Mayan Calendar.
- 4/25/2013
- Shadowlocked
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