I Won’t Come Back
Directed by Ilmar Raag
Russia, 2014
Anya (Polina Pushkaruk) is an orphan on the track to success. She receives top marks in school and makes her way into graduate school as a professor’s assistant. When an old friend, Dima (Sergey Yatsenyuk), gets her into trouble with the police she goes on the run, meeting a young girl, Christina (Vika Lobacheva) along the way.
The second half of I Won’t Come Back is far stronger than the beginning, which features an affair that plays as close to implausible, a drug deal arrest staged unfortunately comically, and two leads whose interactions feel forced and redundant.
Luckily, things change once Andrey (Andrey Astrakhantsev), the older man with whom Anya is infatuated, is absent from the film and the stakes are raised on Anya and Christina’s journey. Two particular scenes – one where Christina is very nearly, and casually,...
Directed by Ilmar Raag
Russia, 2014
Anya (Polina Pushkaruk) is an orphan on the track to success. She receives top marks in school and makes her way into graduate school as a professor’s assistant. When an old friend, Dima (Sergey Yatsenyuk), gets her into trouble with the police she goes on the run, meeting a young girl, Christina (Vika Lobacheva) along the way.
The second half of I Won’t Come Back is far stronger than the beginning, which features an affair that plays as close to implausible, a drug deal arrest staged unfortunately comically, and two leads whose interactions feel forced and redundant.
Luckily, things change once Andrey (Andrey Astrakhantsev), the older man with whom Anya is infatuated, is absent from the film and the stakes are raised on Anya and Christina’s journey. Two particular scenes – one where Christina is very nearly, and casually,...
- 5/1/2014
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
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