4 (Chetyre)

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4 (Chetyre)

2006

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500+ Ratings

Critics Consensus

Boldly ambitious and bracingly passionate, 4 opens an inscrutable window onto modern-day Russia -- and announces director Ilya Khrzhanovsky as a major talent.

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Andrew O'Hehir

Salon.com

It's another blast of vibrant, vicious, gloomy electricity from the always-surprising Russian film scene, and the beginning of an important career.

Nov 5, 2013

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

This 2004 debut feature by Russian director Ilya Khrzanovsky is puzzling, intriguing, and often compelling, apparently set in the present but magical and futuristic in tone.

Nov 5, 2013

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Joshua Rothkopf

Time Out

The sheer surfeit of ideas in 4's first half hour alone could fuel a dozen warped movies; presented in this kind of rush, they leave you agape.

Nov 5, 2013

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Tony McKibbin

The List

In willingly sacrificing story to atmosphere and theme, the film packs a punch -- even if you can't quite say where the blow l comes from.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 26, 2019

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

An unusual but incomprehensible, offensive and tedious sci-fi film that depicts Russia as a place of squalor and its citizens as depressed alcoholics.

Rated: C+

Apr 27, 2014

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Ken Fox

TV Guide

Khrzhanovsky's film, written by acclaimed Russian novelist Vladimir Sorokin, looks great but has a shambolic, off-kilter feel that might not be entirely intentional, and is alternately tedious and shocking.

Rated: 2.5/4

Nov 5, 2013

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One of the worst movies I've ever seen. Ending is terrible and trying to GET to that ending is torturous.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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2005 Seattle International Film Festival

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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This is what communism is all about. The suppressive government made its people a bunch of carcass eating clones.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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This is an utterly excellent film that I wish wholeheartedly was more widely appreciated, or at least more widely watched in the west. It is often regarded as all-out fantasy by its English speaking fans, but in western terms, I don't believe it's any more fantastical, or any less psycho-geographiical than either Blue Velvet for the US, or Patrick Keiller's London for the UK. This is THE modern Russian film. ... Not wishing to appear self satisfied, but having personally witnessed, admittedly briefly, the frighteningly vast, drab, misty autumnal vistas of Western Russia's marshes and grim, half abandoned towns, I am sure that this is the only film that comes anywhere close to depicting the weirdness and sheer teeth-grinding anxiety of those regions. Watch it. Seriously, watch it. WATCH IT.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Certainly a very strange film, and one that has some quite brilliant moments. But it never really comes together as a coherent whole.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Unfocused and rather difficult to indulge in, but my god does he paint a fascinating picture of inner russia and it's people.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Ilya Khrjanovsky

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Konstantin Murzenko

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Anatoliy Adoskin

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Svetlana Vovchenko

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Aleksei Khvostenko

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Director: Ilya Khrjanovsky