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Lady with the Dog
On holiday in Yalta, Muscovite banker Dimitri Gurov contrives to meet a young woman who walks her dog. She’s Anna Sergeyevna, trapped in a loveless marriage to a lackey. He’s unhappy in an arranged marriage. With neither spouse at hand, Dimitri and Anna begin an affair. After a short time, she returns to Saratov, he to Moscow, believing it’s good-by forever. All winter he is miserable, enervated, distracted by tristesse. In desperation, he contrives to go to Saratov, surprising her at a concert. Fearing discovery in her home town, she promises to come to Moscow. Will they cast aside reputation to live together, or will theirs be an affair of infrequent encounters in hotel rooms?
| Release : | 1960 |
| Rating : | 7.4 |
| Studio : | Lenfilm, |
| Crew : | Art Direction, Art Direction, |
| Cast : | Iya Savvina Aleksey Batalov Nina Alisova Pantelejmon Krymov Yuri Medvedev |
| Genre : | Drama Romance |
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Fantastic!
Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
THE LADY is an exquisite and flawless piece of superior art; ah, you admirer of cinema, if you fall in love with such movies do not expect, pray you, to find many others alike. It's a movie of flawless tastenot even one single false note! On the contrary, the most delicious and nuanced and fluent harmony . Oh, such movies disgust you of anything elsenow, think only if it's wise and truly advisable .It's also the simplest of movies, about love and life; a white flame. Only the simplest and very best thingsnothing peculiar, strident or whimsical.This is the lightest art; the difficulty of its achievement is proved by the rarity of such masterpieces. Heifitz did not win a truly outstanding celebrity; yet, he should have had.
Watching "Dama s sobachkoy" (called "Lady with a Dog" in English), you almost wonder if it's going to turn into "Fatal Attraction". I mean, a story about a man and woman having a brief fling, and then he follows her home. What would anyone in the 21st century expect? Just because it's based on an Anton Chekhov novel, doesn't mean we can't make fun of it (especially given its overstuffed sense of itself). The truth is, if Dr. Forrester had made Mike, Servo and Crow watch this, they could have come up with some great comments; they could have even preceded it with an "educational" (read: propaganda) film for Soviet children. But so many movies from the Soviet Union are "Mystery Science Theater 3000"-worthy; "Father Frost" for example. On other notes, the movie has everything that we expect in Russian stories, namely misery and fatalism.
SPOILERSThis Russian movie has some of the most beautiful pictures I've seen in a black and white movie.Sometimes the black and white has some sort of pink or brown shade which makes it really pretty.It looks a lot like on of those good old silent movies.In English the title is pronounced "The Lady with the little dog" and it is originally a story written by the legendary Russian writer Anton Chekhov,one of the best Russian writers together with Tolstoj,Nabokov and of course Dostojevski. The story is centered around a married man called Dimitri (played by a very powerful Aleksei Batalov) who meets a woman called Anna (played by Iya Savvina) during his holiday in Yalta,south Russia.This woman walks along the boulevard with a little white dog.This woman is also married and like Dimitri unhappily.They start an affair which cannot last forever but they hang on until Anna decides to go back to St. Petersburg.Dimitri returns to Moscow and stays until he decides to see her once more in St. Petersburg.There the affair goes on and Anna tells Dimitri that she'll come to Moscow once.This will be their last meeting as Dimitri decides that it is not right to go on and leaves Anna behind at the hotel.Like I already said,the use of black and white is really spectacular in this movie.The acting is of the same quality.Batalov is very convincing as a desolate man whose marriage doesn't work.Savvina resembles quite a lot one of those silent movie actresses,especially with her facial expressions. The best part of the movie though is the sublime score by Nadezhda Simonyan.The music is absolutely brilliant and very romantic at times.There is a great waltz and a beautiful composition when Dimitri and Anna are sitting on a rock looking down at the sea.Still,the movie is very slow and therefore looks too long while it only lasts 85 minutes.This takes away the strength of the movie,which is a little bit of a shame. 7/10
Two weak people wandering through life probably frustrating and certainly boring the life out of their "strong" spouses. Why didn't they just develop a little backbone at home?! It would have made everybody's lives more interesting! I felt like I was reading a Thomas Hardy novel and I wanted to scream or at least shake them until their teeth rattled. But I persevered until the inevitable end, "We'll find a way." ... Maybe. But since the overwhelming impression was that their adulterous passions arose out of an inner boredom with life, it seems entirely likely that that same inner boredom will eventually quench this new passion too.
