Eurazijos aborigenas
Евразиец
Reżyseria:
Sharunas BartasZdjęcia:
Sharunas BartasMuzyka:
Alexander ZekkeObsada:
Sharunas Bartas, Klavdiya Korshunova, Elisa Sednaoui, Erwan Ribard, Aurélien Vernhes-LermusiauxOpisy(1)
Gena is under no illusions about his situation. In the prologue of the film, he briefly sketches out his life in a monotone voiceover: growing up without parents, receiving an "education" from his criminal uncle, initial protection money rackets in the wake of privatizations in the crumbling Soviet Union, later international drug dealing. His enemies are numerous but not easy to recognize; "life is short, the greater part of it already over". Although there is only a small chance that Gena will be able to trade in his nomadic existence between Asia and Europe for a "normal life", he takes the plunge anyway. A frantic chase across Europe thus ensues. Heading west, presumably towards the sun.
Sharunas Bartas paints a dark picture of a globalized world where values seem to have disappeared along with the sunlight. A wintry Europe, where each place is as inhospitable as the next. A gangster wanting to leave the business, joining his famous spiritual brothers Jeff Bailey, Frankie Bono and Jegor Prokudin in most memorable fashion. A 21st century film noir, in which the underworld knows no code of honor and compassion will be avenged. Fatally.
(Berlinale)
Recenzje (1)
First of all, the characters are superficially outlined. Perhaps intentionally, and it might not be generally harmful. When the protagonists are diminished by their flatness, it can create space for everything between them - the film space can be plastic. However, the director did not succeed in that either, which is the real problem, as he probably tried to grasp the space of the whole of Eurasia (see the second title of the film). Something from the director's unfulfilled goals speaks to the viewer through numerous shots of cities from Moscow to Paris, but this formal gimmick alone cannot save the absence of the overall atmosphere. The feeling of a cold and insurmountable current that engulfed the main character did not happen to me. All that remained was a gangster film, which is also predictable, at least in terms of the fate of the main characters (perhaps deliberately as a symbol of the inevitability of that "eastern" current?). This is my first Bartas film, but I think his previous films were, at least from what I've read, better so I won't be discouraged by this film from the author (because on its own, let's admit it, this film could have done that).
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