Vernost (2019) User Reviews

Dangerous Liaisons

[lavatch · 7/10 · 7 September 2022]

The actress Evgeniya Gromova is very good in the complex role of Lena in "Vernost." Lena and her husband Sergei have had some turbulence in their marriage. He is an actor focused on his play, and he is not very communicative with his wife. She then betrays him, and the situation turns into a disaster.

Lena is good at her job as an obstetrician. At one point in the film, she miraculously turns a baby around while still in the womb. She was referred to as a midwife in the best sense of that word. As perceptive as she is with human anatomy, she is not equally skilled in human psychology. She completely misreads her husband's professional relationship with a fellow actor, and she mistakenly concludes that he is a cheater. That mindset leads Lena to become a cheater herself.

Unfortunately for Lena, she has some bad luck with one of her lovers. He turns out to be the husband of one of her pregnant patients. The wife learns about the tryst, and Lena's career is in tatters.

The ebb-and-flow in the relationship of Lena and Sergey was not always persuasive. There never seemed to be any genuine forgiveness on the part of Sergei, and Lena herself did not seem overly contrite for her mischief. Yet, the couple is still together at the end.

Perhaps the filmmakers anticipate a sequel: "Vernost II."

Unapologettically Erotic

[lareval · 6/10 · 5 September 2021]

A steamy and entertaining drama that keeps you engaged to the very end. Sensuality and explicit sexuality hold hands to make this kinky movie surprisingly effective.

What's love got to do with it?

[kosmasp · 7/10 · 3 January 2021]

How well do we know our significant other? How well do we know how they think and what they think of? What their desires really are and what they are actually mad at, when they snap at us? Many questions and sometimes if a person is not fulffiled he/she takes it out on the person close to them.

In this case we have a female that is not entirely satisfied within her marriage. And of course she acts out. But even when she comes back to her man (no pun intended) and tries to pleasure him orally (one of the more "explicit" scenes of the movie), they cannot really connect. No pun intended again.

The movie is about love, but even more about finding pleasure. About being actually satisfied and finding "highlights" in your life. Sometimes that seems to be an adventure outside your own relationship ... but can that relationship survive this? Will it strain it to the point where it can't be held together anymore? There are more than a few questions raised - ah well again with the puns, but you get what I mean

Another strong start with weak finish

[BarneyGrapes · 17 July 2022]

Start strong, and the trigger that leads one of the protagonists down the road of infidelity with the twist that results is interesting (trying to stay spoiler free here), however, the ultimate end point of the relationship is contrived and amateurish writing.

So many good films start strong only to have the writers outsmart themselves. Shame. This strong start could have gone somewhere interesting if the couple had been more realistic in the end.

Also, try and find the original Russian version. The main women lead dubbing on TUBI is okay, but the rest of the characters' dubbing is mediocre to poor.

Very boring. No new story.

[vinayshri · 1/10 · 7 November 2020]

I am so bored watching this that I don't even have anything to write here.

Give audience fantasy

[ks-60500 · 5/10 · 5 October 2020]

The way the actress behave maybe not a good example but its a drama so I accept the way she revenge is purely the need of the story. If not, pointsless of this movie. Everything happen inside just give reality become fantasy. Marriage, vows are iron exist.

Lifetime channel quality (ie no quality) soap opera, as erotic as a hangnail

[random-70778 · 7 October 2021]

Look I can't blame the Russians. They have lots of great state and film works. But like any country they also have a lot of garbage film and TV and this certainly is exactly that.

Frankly it is at the level of 1990's Lifetime Channel melodramas with atrocious acting and laughable dialoged. And the sex scenes are anything but erotic.

Lastly if you can't guess the "surprise ending" ten minutes into this, you'd better check if you have a pulse.

... controversial-sexually-explicit Russian-production ... not-having "intimacy-counselors"

[bjarias · 8/10 · 18 July 2023]

... "constant betrayal becoming an integral part of a double life"

... shown at the 30th Open Russian Film Festival receiving "Special Jury Diploma" ... "for the boundless faith of the actors in the director" ... in 2020, Vernost received main prize of the Russian Film Festival in Paris... Yevgenia Gromova as Lena is superb in this 2019 Russian erotic drama.. "portrayed as a sensual-woman in an unfulfilling marriage, who begins an uncontrollable double life of adulterous affairs"... majority of movies about infidelity-sex not nearly half as good as this film and its compelling performances

... there's many reasons to watch this production more than just one time... each time viewing can open up another insight into what the characters are feeling-thinking... the final two scenes alone can be thought of separately or together, and have different meanings at different times... it is definitely thought provoking for insights into today's modern relationships.

Not on tubi..

[isuprise · 6 February 2022]

I typed in most of the alternate names even & it doesn't come up. I knew there was a reason I never actually signed up on this app. A complete waste of time....so.