Uncle Vanya

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Jens B "Russian Melancholy - The Movie" so much atmosphere, so much tension, so much drinking, beautiful shots, the film just flows like the rain pouring down, the water filling an empty glass on a pool table Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/02/23 Full Review Nawt W An ubiquitous meditation on realizing you have wasted your life and are unable to do anything about it. All of Checkov's plays are designed around the indolence of our players. Most of the drama is in the implications, and the movie adaptation wouldn't be any different. A big, pompous tragedy doesn't happen because, depending on how you look at it, it has already transpired for these characters. And the brilliance of this cast is that you can both pity and sympathize with them depending on your outlook on life. The said cast is great, even if the Russian "overacting" is slightly galling. The movie is also peppered with instances of inexplicable switching from color to black and white. There is no deeper meaning in this. It's just a technical difficulty. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Accomplished Russian film adaptation of Chekov's Uncle Vanya. Woody Allen calls this "the best Vanya" and it may be. Well performed, well filmed, funny. Of course it's Chekov so it sometimes move at a ... stately ... pace. I wouldn't consider it especially slow, though, unless you're conditioned to American action movies and romantic comedies. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Accomplished Russian film adaptation of Chekov's Uncle Vanya. Woody Allen calls this "the best Vanya" and it may be. Well performed, well filmed, funny. Of course it's Chekov so it sometimes move at a ... stately ... pace. I wouldn't consider it especially slow, though, unless you're conditioned to American action movies and romantic comedies. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member My beloved Chekhovs play. One of the best Smoktunosvsky's roles appart of Hamlet, and a black and white, a bit in blue Rerberg (Stalker, Mirror) cinematography. It is a very romantic play, although everybody is inlove with the wrong person. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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