Review of Russian New Year's comedies

What will be shown on the screens at the most bread for rental season

Chekhov’s sobering: “The New Year is the same rubbish as the old one, with the only difference, that the old year was bad, and the new one is always worse ...” - in modern Russia it seems especially perspicacious. Why did the filmmakers, like undermined, rushed to shoot Christmas fairy tales? The explanation is simple. The winter holidays in the repertoire grid are the most bread.

"New Year's battles" quarreled many producers. The Pandora's box was opened by Timur Bekmambetov - who accustomed the mass audience to go to Russian cinema with his “patrols”. He began to stamp the "Christmas trees" that harvested a good harvest. Others adopt Bekmambetov, and, depending on the abilities, decorate the winter screen with a variety of “toys”, confetti and computer backlight ...

Consider the most noticeable films in the collection of New Year's gifts from Russian filmmakers. These curved images with varying degrees of truthfulness talk about our unreasonable hopes. But as the author of the “Anatomy of Melancholy” Robert Burton accurately noted: “Hope and patience ... Two soft pillows that we can knead our heads on.”

Perhaps the most unexpected Christmas fairy tale is from the usually gloomy poet Vasily Sigarev. Endless amazement and fragmentation of a simple girl Lena Shabadinova from Malaya Lyali is caused by our “ country of Oz”. On the threshold of the New Year, the country will die into an endless holiday. Pouring grief with low -quality hops and sees Olivier salad. It explodes himself with the Khiroshima firecrackers. Thinking about the meaning of life, not forgetting the burning question of Russian being: “Do you respect me?”! The Sigarevsky comedy of horrors with a bright lyrical ending is not a perishable New Year's product, a movie about the country in a three -dimensional dimension: people, place, time. The people here are generally not bad. True, they are dumped by the Snow Maiden Lena from the balcony, then they are planted in a monkey, then they are undermined. These cute souls live (and lumpen, and pseudo -intelligence, and merchants, writers, and even the mayor) during - “between”. It seems to be no longer yesterday. But still not today. This happens in New Year's days, when neither an hour, nor day of the week, nor time have any meaning.

In general, our cinema has a persistent feeling that Russians have been living in everyday gloom for a year, for 12 months they are not able to explain with loved ones, understand a colleague, make an offer to a girl, make money, give a debt, and win in the competition. Everything is postponed on one day. New Year's Eve. Why military efforts? After all, the fabulist promised: “They say: on the New Year/ whatever he wishes -/ everything will always happen,/ everything always comes true.” Well, for those who do not trust poems, there is a favorite game of a Russian person - a “field of miracles” with an indispensable Santa Claus Leonid Arkadyevich. His powerful appeal "Prize in the studio!" He warms the soul by millions of voting for a miracle as a norm of life.

“ Country of Wonders” is an improved version of the Bekmambet “Christmas trees”. The novels are finely chopped and mounted in the New Year's salad Olivier directors Dmitry Dyachenko, Maxim Sveshnikov. A couple from the hinterland (in the roles of Provincialov Elena Yakovleva and Fedor Dobronravov) go to the program to Yakubovich to win a prize, and this journey to the Russian roulette shooting gifts, explains a lot about them. The bride and bride are trying to introduce their parents, choosing a restaurant beyond their means. The four strangers (the quartet of “and”) is related to the long New Year's Eve by non -formed weather. The young traffic cop (Alexander Pal) blood from the nose should financially provide the birth of his wife. The honest auditor of Rostislav Khaita with a strand combed to the side, the touchy Caucasian, the seller of fruits and windows Leonid Baraz, is still narcissistic, but already released by the pop singer Kamil Larin ... and in the role of Eldar Ryazanov, almost the entire film of the sleeping one, - Demidov. But the best plot in the film is Zhora Kryzhovnikov, who is not in the credits, he himself strictly forbade critics to say that he has an attitude towards “Wonderland”. And this is a mystery, because on the “Kinotavr” his short story “after us at least a flood” pleased the audience of a “short meter”. Well, which does not happen on the eve of the New Year between producers and directors.

So, under the characteristic syncopes from Kin-dza-dza, aliens are landing on the planet in the appearance of ordinary citizens. The battery in their rusty "plate" requires recharging. So the inevitaries looked into the house of the lone uncle Valera, who under the moonshine with sauerkraut and announced a sudden flood. Why? Yes, because the Earth experiment is recognized as failed. In general, they close us. And with this dull news, the cosmos Assenizers rush further - to plow star expanses under the Rock Cosmodrome. And what is Valera Flood if he has family life?

Kryzhnikov today is one of the best comedographers of a new generation. His “bitter” -1 and -2 in the “amateur video” mode told about the Russian wedding -merciless and reckless, and about Russian funerals -a carnival with tears in his eyes. The “best day” continues the tradition of “bitter” films and breaks them. The comedy of the provisions is fused with the comedy of characters, and “all this farce” is a reality condensed to the limit that winking the viewer. Musical clips are the best and most inventive moments of the film. Spectators are free to sing along the screen, encouraging them with texts of songs. That is, a new form of vacation is found: "Aida in the cinema ... to sing!" Yes, and the heroes of the film sing for a reason - from joy, from grief, from indefatigable longing ... They, like a wolf from the cartoon, cannot sing.

This is the most melancholy story of Kryzhovnikov, not only because the New Year's one, there is a note of farewell in this night crack, which has already become its own in the old year’s board. But also because the movie is about love and treason, and again about love, which "forgives everything that cannot be forgiven." The play of Ostrovsky “The old friend is better than the new two” can be called the basis of the film, such stories about triangles and treason on the eve of the wedding were very popular in ancient vaudevilles. From the “scenes from Russian life” Ostrovsky - a mixture of household and elevated, tears with laughter, absurdity, simple -mindedness and shameless lyrics. The blond Nagiyev, in the role of the gullible traffic cop, Petit Vasyutin is at first embarrassed - everything seems to go beyond the edge of the frame and lead a new applicant of the “voice” ... But after a couple of minutes the performer merges with the image of the old -zone Ivanushka, who has lost a magical striped stick (a sterry living water always gurgles in the rod). Alcohol is not so much a chronic vice for him as an elixir of inspiration: “Right now!” Unlike the sharp eccentrics of the first films, this “Musical History” shuffles with dramatic intonation and portraits the country special. Around the decorated gas station, seething with explosive passions, a clash of strangers and their own, fidelity and betrayal, sobriety and hops, purity and vice. In general, everything is like in the time of Ostrovsky, only with Leps and Boyarsky in addition.