Director: Kantemir Balagov
Writer: Kantemir Balagov and Aleksandr Terekhov
Release Date: 3rd October 2019
Hot Rating: 💥💥💥
Kantemir Balagov's second feature, Beanpole, is a creative and accomplished work for such a young director, but a film that is not without its flaws. Set in 1945 Leningrad, Beanpole is the story of two young women in search of meaning and hope in the war-torn city that surrounds them. The tarnished beauty in their often estranged friendship keeps the film afloat for the lengthy running time, with Vasilisa Perelygina (Masha) and Viktoria Miroshnichenko (Iya) finding a perfect balance between love and desperation in their characters. Outside of the emotional weight that their bond carries, the film resides into a less-than-celebratory aesthetic heaviness, pumping its visuals with sickly tones of red and green, and often distracting from the humanity at the core of its narrative. As the film attempts to find a balance between the ostensible realism of its story and the grandiose of its visuals, it often loses direction.
Writer: Kantemir Balagov and Aleksandr Terekhov
Release Date: 3rd October 2019
Hot Rating: 💥💥💥
Kantemir Balagov's second feature, Beanpole, is a creative and accomplished work for such a young director, but a film that is not without its flaws. Set in 1945 Leningrad, Beanpole is the story of two young women in search of meaning and hope in the war-torn city that surrounds them. The tarnished beauty in their often estranged friendship keeps the film afloat for the lengthy running time, with Vasilisa Perelygina (Masha) and Viktoria Miroshnichenko (Iya) finding a perfect balance between love and desperation in their characters. Outside of the emotional weight that their bond carries, the film resides into a less-than-celebratory aesthetic heaviness, pumping its visuals with sickly tones of red and green, and often distracting from the humanity at the core of its narrative. As the film attempts to find a balance between the ostensible realism of its story and the grandiose of its visuals, it often loses direction.
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