Reviews

It's a story what post-USSR state inhabitants quickly recognize as "privatization" craze in the early 90s. Bleak muddy farms were indeed quickly sold to some foreign 'investors' in some cases. In the spotlight, Irene, has to manage a pig farm in difficult economic situation. All her life was dedicated to the farm. One day, a foreign visitor will try to take power over the farm and she feels both attracted, competitive and powerless through the wind of changes. And it has some twists and great humor! Also some hidden messages.

I think its an entertaining movie about the crazy 90s, it is a little bit controversial (it makes to see those post-USSR farmers as total fools and losers) but it is also full of hopes.

This entertaining drama will seem really funny for those who are also writing and procrastinates when there are no new ideas in mind. The concept - one house but different connected stories are nothing new, but it had its tensions and twists!

Altogether, failed intellectual, old puma, immigrants and grumpy chess player keeps the viewers clueless about the outcome.

The movie focuses on a seemingly bright young medical student with exciting future prospects who also drinks heavily and mess around with his friends. He finds out that relationships with friends, women and patients are complicated and overall feels already left out of everything. He has to choose what not to mess up - if there is anything left what is not already messed up. The jungle scenes adds up an atmospheric melancholy.

The most recognizable star in the movie is Elliott Crosset Hove (as Knud) who is now a promising actor.

This is a story about insecurities and incapability to cope with them. A quiet guy can't find the right words or socially accepted moves to gain acceptance from his small-town neighbourhoods. The anger of failure comes more and more out of control. He thinks he is control when he has safety-matches in his pocket. From that point on, the character gives thrills to viewers, waiting for the moment when something will terribly go wrong. Movie is more about the atmospherics, fater/mother -son relations and disturbing thrills not big twists and turns.

If someone has read Svetlana Alexievich book "Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster" /"Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future" , readers probably find this movie as complex and breath-taking as those real eyewitness, post-traumatic stories.

People who are moving to a different place greatly miss all the memories and people, related to a certain place, certain environment. Its a drama of people who suddenly had no choice but move and therefore in some point in their lives wanting to search back for their inner state of comfort and happiness.

Main character Anya who lost her husband in her wedding day tries to re-live her possible life with another man, living near the Zone and working in the Pripyat city as a guide. She understands that trying to re-live her possible life track as if 1986 wouldn't existed doesn't make her happier. She feels lost and unsteady for making new choices.

There is also a story line of a father and kid who got seperated by the tragic events of 1986. That story line portrays endless guilt that the father couldn't resolve during the next decade. He simply dissapeared from his wife and childs life, probably because of fearing to face consequences of accident or possible trial. The kid, however is trying to find him.

In short words, movie shows how environmental catastrophe could impact lives of ordinary people.

Film main character, wanna-be famous actor Mina, lacks everything - family support, true love and values. It all comes out of control when she meets a handsome guy in streets and starts to overrate her attraction to him. She cannot understand what actual love is despite her kid who needs both of his parents attention. I love all the scenes where Mina is dancing, it portrays how Mina wants to be self-sufficient and admirable but at the same time it shows she is running away from her real-life responsibility (taking care of her child). Movie itself portrays not only desperate single-mum's trying to find love but also the complex situation of divorcing, taking care of a child, muslim-family prejudices of modern-love scenarios.