I’ve still been watching Russian movies almost every evening, some of them together with my wife, Myra. I just haven’t been blogging about them.
Tonight I watched The Lady with the Little Dog (1960), a Chekov adaptation. One of the most superficial things I learned was at about 8:40 in the YouTube version that you can see by clicking on the above screenshot. I liked the way the driver of the sleigh in the right foreground reached back to pull up the blanket for his passenger and then, when the passenger was seated, put it back as a covering for his legs. He did it all in one motion as if this was the millionth time he had done it.
It’s something I had never seen before, either in real life or in the movies.
There are a lot of nice touches in this film. Good cinematography all the way through.