Timo, played here by Andriy Cherednyk, with Felix, played by Yuriy Izdryk. Iryna Tsylik: 'I have my memories from the past about difficult, tough times and the Nineties, when men around me were mostly very lost' Rock Paper Grenade steps back into Nineties Ukraine and the life of Tymophiy. Timo, as his friends and family call him, is looking to the West in a world that is changing fast in the wake of the country’s independence from the Soviet Union and Tsylik takes a playful approach to his coming-of-age tale. It’s a world, however, that director Iryna Tsilyk shows is heavily impacted by conflict trauma, represented by Felix (Yuriy Izdryk), a mysterious Afghanistan veteran with Ptsd who is in a relationship with Timo’s gran (Halyna Veretelnyk-Stephanova), much to the upset of Timo’s mum (Anastasiya Karpenko) and who strikes up an unusual friendship with the youngster.
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- 10/28/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Faded wallpaper with a green pattern covers every inch of the wall. The cabinets are made of dark wood as if dreading the whiteness of minimalist design. On the other side of the same wall, posters of Ice-t, Michael Jordan, and Sylvester Stallone cover the old wallpaper beneath it. A Soviet past in the first room and a yearning for the West in the second. Such is the symbolic conflict in Rock Paper Grenade, the first fiction feature by Ukrainian filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk. The stylish follow-up to her acclaimed documentary The Earth Is Blue As An Orange is based on her husband Artem Chekh’s autobiographical novel about growing up in Nineties Ukraine.
The room with American superstars on the walls is Timophiy’s. He is shown first as a child (Andriy Cherednyk) but most of the film focuses on his teenage years (when he is played by Vladyslav Baliuk). He lives with.
The room with American superstars on the walls is Timophiy’s. He is shown first as a child (Andriy Cherednyk) but most of the film focuses on his teenage years (when he is played by Vladyslav Baliuk). He lives with.
- 10/19/2022
- by Oskar Ban Brejc
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Rock, Paper, Grenade has the feel of an encounter with an old friend after a long time. He will tell you a lot of stories but not long afterwards, you will just remember fragments.
Based on the autobiographical novel Who Are You? by her husband Artem Chekh director Iryna Tsilyk’s coming-of-age drama tells the story of the unusual friendship between a boy, Tymophiy and his grandmother’s strange lover Felix (Yuriy Izdryk). The director leads us through Tymophiy´s life from his childhood until adulthood by way of episodes of varying significance, including everything from buying new modern trainers and having a first girlfriend.
These reminiscences are combined with sequences involving Felix. The longer we watch, the more questions and fewer answers about him we have. While Tymophiy’s story and the changes to his character are shown via...
Based on the autobiographical novel Who Are You? by her husband Artem Chekh director Iryna Tsilyk’s coming-of-age drama tells the story of the unusual friendship between a boy, Tymophiy and his grandmother’s strange lover Felix (Yuriy Izdryk). The director leads us through Tymophiy´s life from his childhood until adulthood by way of episodes of varying significance, including everything from buying new modern trainers and having a first girlfriend.
These reminiscences are combined with sequences involving Felix. The longer we watch, the more questions and fewer answers about him we have. While Tymophiy’s story and the changes to his character are shown via...
- 10/19/2022
- by Eliska Soukupova
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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