A Moscow dreamer, a British exec, and the footage that never made the news.
Vadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies. He falls in love with the beautiful Helen, an English media executive, and subsequently they must contend with the barriers that their different backgrounds present.
Direction
Pawlikowski's debut already has that chilly, precise lyricism.
Cinematography
Moscow looks beautifully, hopelessly gray.
Acting
Bodrov Jr. carries desperate optimism like a wound.
Director
Paweł Pawlikowski
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