Five Evenings
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER IN THE FILMS OF NIKITA MIKHALKOV BOXSET BEGINNING 8/24/10
Five Evenings is Nikita
Mikhalkov's brilliantly
cinematic and achingly poignant mounting of Alexander
Volodin's comedy-drama
stage masterpiece.
During a brief visit to late 50's Moscow,
Alexander rings the bell at a
threshold he hasn't crossed since before the war. Wistful
nostalgia
collides with kitchen-sink reality when Tamara (Lyudmila Gurchenko,
Siberiade), the dawning love Alexander left behind 17 years before,
answers
the door. Reunited within a brilliantly recreated Khruschev-era communal
apartment, the couple struggles to rekindle a still gestating romance
with
neither the mature bond of trust nor the blind hope of youth to guide
them.
The ensuing quintet of days and nights before Alexander must return to
his
life in the Soviet provinces lifts successive veils of self-deception
and
pain, separating past from present and longing from love.
Conceived, adapted, and rehearsed while
Mikhalkov was simultaneously
making the costume drama Oblomov and shot in a mere 25 days during a
scheduled lull in production, Five Evenings is a valedictory and
heartfelt
celebration of the risks and rewards of second chances.
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Technical Info
- Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
- Color: Color and B&W