| The latest film premieres will also be told between men Last week several long-awaited films were released. They have been described so many times (including in our newspaper) on various occasions - from festivals to prestigious awards - that there seems to be no need to talk about them again. However, having appeared on Russian screens at the same time, these films created a special - and funny - context and brought to life comparisons that in any other situation would have seemed artificial.
So, Far from Heaven . An extremely beautiful film, shot by excellent cinematographer Ed Lachman, starring Julianne Moore. The story of a prosperous mistress of a doll's house in the American province of the fifties, whose serene happiness falls apart under the blows of cruel reality. Watching the film, however, is very pleasant, since the attributes of this melodrama are red maple leaves, ideally combined with handbags, scarves, shoes and cars, ceremonial interiors, as if straight out of photographs of fashion magazines of that time, and most importantly, the beautiful face of the heroine, from which it is impossible to to come off - have a much stronger effect and are better remembered than the experiences of the heroes. In a strange way, Julianne Moore's heroine here resembles the heroines of another actress, well known to domestic audiences - Tatyana Doronina. Their beauty has a high degree of sensual appeal and at the same time keeps them at a distance, demonstrating a form so perfect that any outside intervention only disrupts the harmony. The heroines of Doronina and their American companion from Far from Heaven are as good as they are inaccessible, and do not quite exist in the human dimension, despite their very material, even curvaceous forms and such a soft, feminine soulfulness, which, it would seem, should guarantee them quiet earthly happiness.
One of Doronina’s most famous heroines, stewardess Natasha from the film “Once Again About Love” (in 1968, according to a survey by Ekran magazine, this role was named the best) received another sign of respect - the remake of Vera Storozheva and Renata Litvinova’s “Sky. Young woman. Airplane". In this picture, Renata Litvinova played her feeling from the character embodied by Doronina, bringing her mysterious detachment almost to the grotesque. Not only is everyday life and the specific urban environment completely removed from the picture, but the entire image of Litvinova’s heroine is chilled to the point of complete otherworldliness. One could go even further and remove all the other characters - since the point is not in them at all, but in the white queen herself, a girl not created for the earth, dreaming of earthly love, but spending her life in the sky.
Earthly, sensual, carnal love goes to completely different characters. One of the collisions of the film “Far from Heaven” is the latter’s homosexuality, which was unexpected for the heroine and very difficult for her husband to realize. A brutally handsome man and a successful manager (Dennis Quaid), with horror and shame (this is taking place in the patriarchal fifties), realizes that his charming wife is not attracted to him at all, but is excited by the muscular body of a young man he accidentally met.
For director Todd Haynes, this story is not central - even for the heroine this is not the strongest shock, what is more important for her is her chaste love for her black gardener, which the irreconcilable and omnipresent public has made impossible. But some of our compatriots were interested in this topic: on the website www/gay.ru, for example, the following text appeared : “A kiss between two men still remains a rare phenomenon, almost always causing a shock reaction from viewers. However, recently several films have been released where male actors kiss. One of the main paintings is “Far from Heaven”. The author of the note has not yet seen the new painting by Mikhail Brashinsky “Ice”, which has also been written about a lot. The fact is that our debutant domestic director shot a big scene in which straight men in the roles of gays very openly depict not only a kiss, but a rather long love game. “Ice,” which recently received the third prize at the Spirit of Fire festival (and did not achieve success at the festival in Rotterdam), is valuable not only for this, but it’s still nice that at least here domestic cinema keeps pace with world fashion. Alena Solntseva |
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