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Our review of Tchaikovsky's Wife: queer drama

2023-02-14T13:47:00.383Z


CRITICISM – The Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov offers the story of an unrequited passion through the portrait of the wife of the composer of Swan Lake. A feverish and powerfully romantic film.


For her, love rhymes with forever.

That's the problem.

Antonina dreamed of marrying Tchaikovsky.

She got it.

He was terrified.

The rest will not be a long calm river.

A great husband is one thing.

Homosexual is another.

She closes her eyes and ears, only listens to her passion.

She won't let him go.

This is the story of an obsession.

The divorce will never take place.

Serebrennikov ditched Leto

's rock

for

Swan Lake

.

Both registers are successful for him.

The camera sings, twirls, capsizes.

She often adopts an overhanging position, which is perhaps the divine point of view, unless it is that of the angels.

They looked at this tragedy in the first person, this slow descent into hell where no one will have time to breathe.

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From Moscow to Saint Petersburg, in trains, in salons, a woman chases a man who doesn't want her.

Besides, her dowry is not what was expected.

He doesn't like her red dress.

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