"Message to a person" - choice of colta.ru

Today, September 15, in St. Petersburg, the 27th festival “Message to Man” begins. The opening film will be the “Man with the Cinema” by Dzigi Vertov, his show with the musical accompaniment of the Russian group Therr Maitz in the palace - the original Ommage of the centenary of the October Revolution. The large special program “The Ghost wanders around the screen” will be devoted to the revolution (except for rare films - for details, see below - a non -winning conference dedicated to the problem of representation of revolutionary experience with cinema means is expected). Traditionally, festival new items will also be shown at the “Epistles”: from the counter -revolutionary satire of Michel Khazanavichus “Young Goddar” to the anti -colonial drama “Western” Valeshka Gryzebach (the program “Cinema Super Refresh”). There will also be a traditional cultural program (this time - dedicated to the life of the remote republics of the USSR, a sort of Soviet National Geographic). Finally, special attention to all interested in documentaries should be paid to the retrospective of the Czech documentary, Helena Trzhehtikova (within two weeks she even managed to be the Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic, but resigned in horror).

Alexey - Gay. He is 21 years old. He received the camera as part of the Reality project and will now shoot all the events of his life. The viewer will see how Alexey quarrels with his mother, awkwardly communicates with his father and arrives in a fee at the VII International Film Festival named after Andrei Tarkovsky “Mirror”, where he has something like a resort novel. However, the final installation does not belong to him, but to the actor and beginner director Dmitry Kubasov. Having successfully crossed the width, the Tarkovsky festival and the story of Alexei and Grisha, his resort love, Kubasov creates a terrifying, albeit quite convincing, portrait of Russia for the past few years. The people who tipsy against the backdrop of the Levitan landscapes and gold -headed Rus', as if emanating from Mikhalkov’s films, listen to folk ditties mixed with Alena Apina or Valery Syutkin. All this is too recognizable, too familiar.

However, this is a strong and rather convincing accusation thrown in the face of our society, is fully generated by this very society. “Butterflies”, as materials about the film are repeatedly mentioned, is a picture of “The Life of the Moscow Gaia”. And indeed: Alexei behaves in accordance with the most common philistine ideas about “gays” (and “Muscovites”). He vulgarens, drinks a lot, often changes sexual partners and, in general, in general seduces a young provincial boy.

You can object: we are watching a documentary movie. All what is seen is facts from the real life of a real person. However, Andrei Tarkovsky, whose shadow constantly looms in the film somewhere in the background, once imagined how a film with the life of one person, filmed from beginning to end, would be given to several directors to make his own film out of it-and how much they will be different from the other! By selecting the material, Kubasov seeks to show us which Alexei Gay. But what is Alexei? This remains behind the scenes.