"Once upon a time in the East", on VOD on June 11
"Everything is going to work out," promises Egor (Egor Barinov) to his mistress, Anna (actress and singer Kristina Schneider). Nothing is less sure. As soon as he can, this truck driver takes him to Moscow to sell the gloves that she knits. The two lovers are married and their spouses begin to be wary. Russian director Larissa Sadilova was inspired by "extraordinary lovers" whom she met for her eighth feature film Once Upon a Time in the East. She films an attractive woman, halfway between Emma Bovary and a Slavic "Desperate housewife", who flourishes in clandestine love affairs. The man she "borrows" has nothing to envy and lies to his wife with a stunning natural. The director also paints the state of mind of their legitimate half without feeling sorry for their fate. In this pagnolade in the heart of the Russian countryside, gravity quarrels with humor. Always benevolent. Beginning actors put their grain of
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