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Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

This is an animated short by Aleksandr Petrov using the technique of paint-on-glass, where the image is painted directly on sheets of glass. There will be spoilers ahead:This is an adaptation of a work by Ivan Shmelyov, A Love Story. It's the story of a 16 year old boy, the son of a wealthy family, studying for his exams and wrestling with puppy love, which has hit him twice at once, first with Pasha, the family's maid and then the mysterious woman living nearby.Though his interest in the maid is largely returned, his interest in the other older woman has a more uneven pattern to it. Both loves are ultimately doomed and not just because he's 16. Sons of wealth marrying the family maid was all but unheard of at that time and place, for one thing. As for his other interest, she has a past and a reputation, along with a complicated present.The plot is interesting, but unless you can find something with subtitles or speak Russian, the plot is hard to follow. Subtitled copies can be found, but the animation itself is so breathtaking that one can appreciate this for the visuals alone. I've been fortunate enough to see this with English subtitles.There's angst, tragedy, laughter and joy throughout and it's very well crafted. This can be seen online and is most highly recommended.

impressionist art. delicate theme. Alexandr Petrov science to explore each nuance in admirable manner. and his unique animation. it is more than a movie. maybe an experience. a beautiful, useful, almost magic one. because more than a film about love, dreams, expectations and grow -up, it is the film about a special age. and the delicacy to explore it does it real great show. it is a film about subtle nuances of an experience and the chance to discover an live the magic of life. a superb movie for the grace of image, for the science to reflect the magic of a delicate episode of life. the story of the young Anton is universal. the talent of director is to transform it in personal experience for each spectator in a splendid manner.

Words are just not enough to express how marvelous this short is. Each one of the animations directed by Aleksandr Petrov is a flawless and exquisite work of art. He always manage to turn even the most (apparently) mundane story into something incredibly beautiful and poetical, and this short film about the contrast between passion and true love isn't exception. I simply loved every single second from "My Love": After seeing some bland, commercial and ugly animated films and television shows, this was a strong reminder of why I love so much this underrated genre, which is sadly commonly dismissed as something that only kids could enjoy, despite the existence of extraordinary films like this one. Personally, I would recommend this short to anyone.10/10 (And I would rate it with eleven stars if I could)

"Moya lyubov" or "My Love", paint-on-glass-animated 2006 short film (26 minutes) directed by Aleksandr Petrov is based on "A Love Story" or "Istoriya Lyubovnaya" (1927) by Ivan Shmelyov. It takes place in the 19th century Russia and tells about the first love of the sixteen-year-old boy Anton who is torn apart by his feelings for a pure and gentle girl, the maid-servant for his wealthy family, Pasha and a mysterious enigmatic next door neighbor Serafima. Shemelyv's story was inspired by one of the most captivating love stories ever told, his famous namesake Ivan Turgenev's "Pervaya lyubov" (1860; First Love), a novella that depicts the love of a sixteen-year-old boy Vladimir for his neighbor, 20 years old princess Zinaida, unattainable, devious but alluring and unforgettable. By the words of Petrov, the film "is about waking of first love, naive and childish, both resolute, and silly, with all tortures of a romantic soul. Not that I have gone through such feelings myself, but I deeply felt all of them." At the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, "Moya Lyubov" was called an "exquisite impressionist vision with a very poetic narrative and profound psychology". I believe that Petrov's film was the best of five nominees in the category Short Animated Films and deserved all awards possible. As much as I enjoyed the 2008 Oscar winner, the slow-motion updated to modern Russia version of Sergey Prokofiev's "Peter and Wolf", Petrov's film is simply in league of its own. Work on the film took place in Yaroslavl, Russia over a period of three years painting on glass sheets, using mostly his own fingers, resulted in 18720 paintings. The film's style is similar to that used in Petrov's other films ("Korova", "Rusalka", Oscar winning "Starik i More") and can be characterized as a type of Romantic realism. People and landscapes are painted on glass and animated in a very realistic yet delicate and dream-like fashion. In "Moya lyubov" Petrov includes Anton's inner thoughts while the boy reads Turgenev's "Pervaya Lyubov" and identifies with its narrator, Vladimir, the boy of the same age and the nightmarish scene when the ill boy imagines himself being buried beneath freshly-fallen deep snow on a dark night.Every frame of the incredibly beautiful work is literally breathtaking. I can't compare him to any working animator. His films bring to mind the paintings of such poetic Russian Artists as Mikhail Nesterov, Vasiliy Polenov, Victor Borisov-Musatov, and even frescoes and icons of Andrei Rublyov that under magic fingers of the master became living and breathing.