A beautiful film. In fact, a travel in the heart of Russian spirit. Love, traditions, drama and memories. The subtle past, the gloomy present, gestures at pieces of an old mirror and drops of a old rain. A film about an age. Age of everybody with different nuances but warm ashes, with secrets and words transfigured in memory waters, with resignations and desires and snow of a personal past. It is easy to say: a splendid film. A film of Mihalkov. Good, precious and real. But it is more. It is the discover of yourself. It is a drama. It is a comedy. It is a kind of Proust's madlene. The director as the czar, Menshikov as the young cadet and Osmond - the foreign lady, who discover the roots of reality. A movie without public because each man, each woman is a character of this masterpiece about beauty, values and lost ages.
Review of The Barber of Siberia
