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Voditel dlya Very

• 10.13.09
  Party-Time
  Barbara Brylska, Beregis Avtomobilya, Eldar Ryazanov, Ironiya Sudba, Semnadcat' mgnovenij vesny, Sluzhebnyiy Roman, Voditel dlya Very, Vokzal dlya Dvoikh (1)

  I still haven't worked up enough nerve to finish watching Voditel dlya Very. Instead I took in something easy and watched parts of Ironya Sudba. I've watched it a few times already, but this time something caught my eye just a few seconds from the end of Part One. In most of the Eldar Ryazanov films I've seen, he works something about western communication technology into the film. In Vokzal dlya Voikh (1982) it was a VCR player. In Sluzhebnyy roman it was a built-in 8-track player in a car. ...
  
  
• 10.08.09
  Some films are hard to watch
  Voditel dlya Very (2)

  Last night I watched several more sections of Voditel dlya Very, but had to stop at this point in part 9 where Viktor sees the General's key to his personal safe. It's too painful to go on, because it looks like Viktor is about to do something that is not going to be able to be undone, and which is going to hurt many people at many levels. I am going to watch the rest of it, but first I have to work up enough nerve for it, which means it could be another day ...
  
  
• 10.06.09
  Voditel dlya Very
  Nikita Mikhalkov, Pavel Chukhraj, Utomlyonnye solntsem, Voditel dlya Very, Vor (0)

  So far I've watched up through part 5, and so far it's great--one of the best I've seen. I wouldn't have known how good it is based on the Wikipedia article about it, though: The film received mixed reviews from critics. The entertainment magazine Variety referred to the film as "more off-putting than enthralling" and noted that while the film has been compared to the Academy Award–winning Burnt by the Sun, it lacked a main character that a viewer could identify with. Variety commented that Viktor's personal struggles "[seemed] irrelevant" and criticized Petrenko's "limited emotional repertoire", as well ...
  
  

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