Year: 2005
Duration: 01:54:05
Directed by: Sharunas Bartas
Actors: Dmitriy Podnozov, Rita Klein, Aleksandre Saulov, Saakanush Vanyan
Language: French
Country: France
Also known as: Septyni Nematomi Zmones
Description: A group of criminals are traveling in a stolen Mercedes along numerous houses and impassable roads to eventually end up on an old decaying state farm in Crimea former Soviet Union, where the mother, wife and daughter of one of them live. On the last night they have a party that is equally destructive as their life.
On a personal note – I’m ashamed to admit that this happened to be my first Bartas movie and, though I was not swept, it got me interested, if nothing else, in the mechanics that actually make it work. I pretty much hated the first half and had to fight the urge to just turn it off – that’s the half full of what’s supposed to be beautiful scenery and yada-yada. I was not impressed in the least – Bartas surely has better taste in music than the Discovery channel as far as shooting nature is concerned but not much more if you ask me. But where he truly compensates for his unexplainable desire to torture viewers with innumerable vistas is his amazing knack for shooting humans. That’s the part I can’t easily explain to myself – while his characters are almost as static, mute and lacking in action as his landscapes, one still can barely move the eyes away from the screen the moment a human face is shown. I guess it must be some sort of mesmerizing voyeurism at work 🙂 I’ve no idea if the party scene taking up the last third of the film was acted or shot documentary style but it’s a true marvel either way.
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