Summary
Unclassifiable film that goes back and forth from the absurd black comedy to terror about an unusual police interrogation to which a journalist detained for no apparent reason is subjected.
Review
After a day with several setbacks and when he prepares to return to Podolsk (a small city near Moscow), Nicolai (Vadik Koriolov) is arrested for no apparent reason and taken to a police station, where he is subjected to an increasingly unusual interrogation.
Semyon Serzin's film, based on the work of Dmitriy Danilov (also a co-writer), does not hide this theatrical origin, but it knows how to give it a convincing cinematography.
At some unclassifiable point, the story immerses us in absurd and sometimes surreal and almost dreamlike situations that go (and come) from black comedy to terror, in a true Kafkaesque odyssey for the protagonist (and the viewer). Police interrogators assume atypical roles in the face of the perplexed Nicolai, a journalist unhappy with his work situation and the place where he lives. As reminiscent of his communist days, the film is set today. And that is one of its keys.
Unclassifiable film that goes back and forth from the absurd black comedy to terror about an unusual police interrogation to which a journalist detained for no apparent reason is subjected.
Review
After a day with several setbacks and when he prepares to return to Podolsk (a small city near Moscow), Nicolai (Vadik Koriolov) is arrested for no apparent reason and taken to a police station, where he is subjected to an increasingly unusual interrogation.
Semyon Serzin's film, based on the work of Dmitriy Danilov (also a co-writer), does not hide this theatrical origin, but it knows how to give it a convincing cinematography.
At some unclassifiable point, the story immerses us in absurd and sometimes surreal and almost dreamlike situations that go (and come) from black comedy to terror, in a true Kafkaesque odyssey for the protagonist (and the viewer). Police interrogators assume atypical roles in the face of the perplexed Nicolai, a journalist unhappy with his work situation and the place where he lives. As reminiscent of his communist days, the film is set today. And that is one of its keys.