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Yar, you be here: East-West > Customer Reviews East-West Customer Reviews (1 - 3 of 23 Reviews)Just a reminder
I absolutely love this film, and it hits very close to home, as I am Ukrainian. I would just like to remind reviewers that Kyiv (and not the Russian name Kiev) is in fact the capital city of Ukraine, and not in Russia at all. The Ukrainian people sufferend a great deal at the hands of the Russians, and talking about our capital as being Russian is simply adding insult to injury. The only good anti-communist is a FRENCH anti-Communist...
The only good anti-communist is a FRENCH anti-Communist... That's something I've believed since first reading Raymond Aron. This Gallic tradition has continued through Bernard Henry-Levy and now I'm adding French director Regis Wagnier to my list... The film stars Sandrine Bonnaire and Catherine Deneuve. It's about idealistic Communists who return from Paris to the USSR in 1946 to help build up socialism in the wake of WWII. What they find, instead, is suffering they never imagined. The film has a certain French quality, especially in the relationships; and yet, there is something Russian there, too. Filmed in Kiev, it really looks Russian, even when the faces seem French. The fear, paranoia, suspicion--even the dancing men of the Red Army Chorus--all very Russian. What's missing is a little bit of Russian warmth, which is somehow found in even the most shocking Russian films. The French are a bit more cerebral and rational, I guess. But the picture packs a wallop, all the same. I won't spoil it by revealing the plot. At least it has a happy ending (in a really Russian movie, the hero would be shot, I would think). It is really, really good. And I recommend it. Add it to your own Netflix queue--or buy it from Amazon... A great movie for people who don't know how much russians suffered under communism.
This is one one of the best movies never made about the life in communist Russia.
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