Peremirie / The Truce (2010)
DVDRip | AVI | 720 x 320 | XviD @ 1528 Kbps | AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | 98 mins | 1,41 Gb
Lang: Russian | Subs (idx/sub): English, French, Russian
Genre: Drama | Russia
DVDRip | AVI | 720 x 320 | XviD @ 1528 Kbps | AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | 98 mins | 1,41 Gb
Lang: Russian | Subs (idx/sub): English, French, Russian
Genre: Drama | Russia
Egor Matveev is a young driver journeying to a small town in the middle of nowhere, re-encountering old friends and looking for love. In director Svetlana Proskurina’s words, ‘The main theme of the movie is the search for one’s inner self. Some find it when they are 70 and some when they are 20. The main character is a naïve sincere boy, who is in process of finding his inner self but it’s a dramatic process.’ A shocking and profound film, but not without its light moments. Also starring the outragous Russian rock musician Sergei Shnurov.
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It’s tempting to call Truce “very Russian”, whatever that means – in this case, a picaresque, absurdist narrative in which lugubrious blokes traverse scenic but industry-damaged landscapes populated by weirdos and criminals, where guns and vodka are seldom far from one’s shaky grasp, and where grim, casual violence is juxtaposed with transcendent moments of soulful/despairing contemplation and fleeting glimpses of romantic/financial escape-routes.
Similar examples can be found in pictures from several eastern and central European countries, but in Russian hands – in this case veteran director Proskurina, adapting a screenplay from newcomer Dmitri Sobolev, with luminously limpid but disarmingly unfussy 35mm images from outstanding cinematographer Oleg Lukichev – the results can often be transportingly magical, albeit in a beautiful-nightmare sort of way (the closest recent reference, tonally speaking, is perhaps Alexey Balabanov’s darkly brilliant, eighties-set Cargo 200 [2007].)
There’s certainly no hope of quickly summing up the wispy story, involving twentyish lout Egor (Ivan Dobronravov) and his semi-random wanderings in an underpopulated, unspecified, crumbling backwater (“it’s been a dead end for a long time”). Along the way he’s aided/hindered by his bearish old pal Sobokin, played by noted ska-punk star Sergei ‘Shnur’ Shnurov in a performance of magnetically truculent charisma (think Russell Crowe verbally pummelling his way out of a bad Stolichnaya hangover).
This is a blighted, benighted zone where there’s an ungoing, unspecified conflict between representatives of the local factory and the local (coal?)mine – one whose temporary suspension provides the movie with its title (“the war is crap, it’s the manoeuvres that matter”). Social structures seem to have long since broken down, while representatives of national/regional “authority” – army, police – are often visible, but are at best ineffective, at worst brutal and capricious (there’s a tough-watch torture scene later on in which a hapless Tartar farm-hand gets his feet dunked in boiling water).
Constantly hovering on the brink of caricatured, nihilistic quirkiness but sustaining a generalised air of anything-can-happen nefariousness whose freewheeling rhythms prove quickly intoxicating, Truce is a baffling but stimulating cosmic-joke comedy of the very blackest hue.Neil Young's Film Lounge
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