When young children dream of terrible dreams, they call for help of their parents. Some also supplied and main character in the picture - sensitive militsionersha Angelina. 'Mom, Dad, where are you? " - Awkwardly mumbled the girl, before you wake up. Nobody answered, but followed awakens assembly gluing, sent as a spectator, and the heroine in a hopeless reality. Return, . where the withered autumn and the cold wind seaside, . blown lifeless, . recognizable post-Soviet neighborhood. These tales from the current generation of Russian directors 'new wave': the narrator fascinate listeners tone - calm, . measured, . persuasive even, . a tragicomic characters, . in turn, . trying to come to terms with his personal hell, . plunged into an abyss of meaningless questions, . which are so difficult to find answers,
. The existing problems puzzled Gels voiced directly only in a nightmare: more than anything else she is interested, . How much longer will this last macabre endless dream, . in which she stands all alone, . not knowing whom to complain, . with whom do you ask, . where to go? Directed by Nicholas Khomeriki, . as is the, . responsible ornately, . while also in question form,
. But is it worth to wake up at all, when you, as a dry wreck, live in the gloomy city of Vladivostok and the wear on the shoulders of asexual police epaulets? Of course, 'dark tale about the' largely criticized and, in general, it is understandable why. Very much in the film is perceived as an unforgivable hypocrisy. On the tape is quite impossible to watch from the standpoint of domestic likelihood. Pretentiousness and affectation obscene vocabulary are jarring, as in vyrypaevskoy 'euphoria'; second lieutenant from the periphery, endowed with the eyes, facial expressions, gait, and intonations of Alice Khazanova - the image is really stupid and some foreign. Well, if only because that is even far more absurd than the investigator Faina in Litvinovsky 'Goddess'. However, all the problems of perception in the film only because Khomeriki not touch subjects, so carefully raised by venerable screenwriter Rodionov. All the same, 'Tale about the darkness' is not a valid accusatory sketches on the current topic pending apocalypse, in which resides Russia backwoods. That is why all the dirt and despair operator Alisher Hamidhodzhaev captures on film with his usual divine detachment. It is important to remember only one thing: Nikolai Khomeriki - director of several other creative school: he, . bothering assistant of the famous French director Philippe Garrel-sixties, . at some point become a darling of the Cannes Film Festival, . making movies, . which can easily be converted to the European market,
. He is struggling to ignore the social, proposing instead an elegy sensual, frivolous essay on 'lonely woman wants to meet'. The darkness in this tale is becoming a to the finale is not so much because of the provincial scene of action, however due to the fact that this single woman is unable to meet a. These reflections are interesting, to some extent, even outstanding, considering that in Russia very few people know how to make a film like this makes Khomeriki. However, this film is still doomed to be overlooked and undervalued. It's not that bad, not at. Just a domestic audience in an amicable way to spit on all this cinematic culture.