Khrustalyov, My Car!

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Eithan D It's a mush of godknowswhat with no coherent story. If you're high it'll be fun for a while as it's not dumb, just very surrealist Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/03/23 Full Review Nawt W Both a solemnly realistic recollection and a "what if" scenario that is stuffed with a thoroughly misguided victim complex of Aleksey German. As usual, there isn't any semblance of a plot; it's an outline, and even with the annotation in the beginning, for the first hour, you will not understand what is actually occurring. The second part of the movie picks up, probably because the scenes transition away from his usual structure of eavesdropping on abrupt conversations, where dialogue overlaps and the camera defiantly doesn't want to show who was talking without a significant lag. The pace of the dialogue is, naturally, completely deranged and only fully comprehensible when two people are talking. If you feel that the sound is botched and appears to have been recorded in the other dimension, never fear, because German also knew that. He tried to make it way too complicated and basically create the entire ambience in post-production. But it didn't work. Obviously, it's not his fault. It's the plebs in the studio. Wonder why other movies from Russia in the 1990s barely had this problem? Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review nefasto r As Bob Belcher once said: "It was long and boring and made me want to stop supporting the arts and start actively working against them." Loved the quirkiness in some scenes, and the photography though. But that was not enough. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member ?????? ?????????? ????????. ?????? , ??????? ?? ????? ????? ??????????. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review walter m In "Khrustalyov, My Car!" General Klensky(Yuriy Tsurilo) is the head of a mental hospital in the former Soviet Union. The insanity that he witnesses there carries over to his family life which is depicted in the same madcap and whirligig way. What can be inferred is that this is set during the Stalinist reign of terror, replete with random people being disappeared right, left and center while it would take more information to identify everybody in Klensky's home to any satisfaction. There is also a key turning point in history that the movie treats in as matter of fact way as humanly possible. Which is the way history usually happens in real time. Except I'm sure the participants would have some feeling as to what was about to change, no matter what the movie may think. At least, it chooses the perfect moment to end on. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member fellinesque classic about the month of Stalin's death. forget the plot--info overload and hard to follow-but the telling, man the telling is gorgeous and crazy. a meta film about the soul of that era and the politics of representation in the Soviet system. dimly lit black and white carnivalesque attitude emphasise the aesthetics of disgust and the power relatiobships. a critic for the Guardian put it best: "resembles nothing else in cinema—although if Fellini, Tarkovsky and Tati had pooled resources to update a Gogol story, they might have matched it …. Aleksei German's film … may be Russian cinema's answer to Finnegans Wake" -Jonathan Romney. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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