A Gentle Creature
Кроткая
Лагідна
Réalisation:
Sergueï LoznitsaScénario:
Sergueï LoznitsaPhotographie:
Oleg MutuActeurs·trices:
Vasilina Makovtseva, Valeriu Andriuta, Sergei Kolesov, Liya Akhedzhakova, Борис Каморзин, Viktor Nemets, Sergey Russkin, Sergey Fyodorov (plus)VOD (1)
Résumés(1)
A woman lives alone on the outskirts of a village in Russia. One day she receives a parcel she sent to her incarcerated husband, marked 'return to sender'. Shocked and confused, the woman has no choice but to travel to the prison in a remote region of the country in search of an explanation. So begins the story of a battle against this impenetrable fortress, the prison where the forces of social evil are constantly at work. Braving violence and humiliation, in the face of all opposition, our protagonist embarks on a blind quest for justice. (Wild Bunch Distribution)
(plus)Critiques (1)
Loznic's filmmaking feels outdated, despite the precisely directed mise-en-scène and Mutu's economical camera. Equally outdated, however, are the metaphorical background of A Gentle Creature, which is an excerpt from classical Russian literature, to which the author does not add anything urgently contemporary. His drastic Russian prison thus stands on shabby foundations. In My Joy he was much less didactic and with a much more impressive result.
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