Instead of Rotterdam

Today, Alexander Sokurov’s film “Francophony” in Moscow opens the 2 Morrow festival . Its program is so extensive and diverse that it is not possible to love and describe at the same time all the paintings that will show at the Moscow and the Central Criminal Code of the Museum of Moscow during this week: a person who is ready to accept the films of the director of the amateur Vladimir Kozlov (the Offside program) is unlikely to come to terms with the sophisticated directors of Pietro Marcello, and the fans of Berlin. Schools ”-with her American indie retracers. COLTA authors . RU offer their subjective list of the best films of the festival airline - with arguments.

Perhaps the best film of the festival program. And quite atypical for 2morrow , always gravitated either to the amorphous humanism of the conditional Sandance format, or to the difficult, viscous and chamber “slow” cinema (however, this year’s program has several such amazing exceptions). In principle, the “Treasure” is in a sense a small film in which little happens besides conversations: two neighbors exhausted by the Beznyzhiye and a mortgage, the masters with a metal detector are renting for the last money and go to the village to look for a treasure, allegedly buried in the garden of the grandfather of one of them. The treasure is not everything, and the heroes endlessly dig and bickering, bickering and digging. The controversy has always occupied an important place in the films to Isuroma; There is a place here for the traditional excursion for the director into the sphere of pure science (historical), which is again conducted by the wife of the protagonist. As for the scale, the “treasure” ceases to seem so modest chamber work, if you look to the end, the deliberately tightened search for the treasure will disorient the viewer, but an unexpected final twist (even two; for a reason, a child is depicted on the original poster of the film, and not a chest with piasters) turns an absurd comedy into a drama.