"Exile Love" is a film directed by Andrei Sarkinsev and starring Konstantin Laronico, Alexander Baruev, Maria Bonneville and others. The film mainly tells the story of the male protagonist who returns to his hometown with his wife and children. When he starts a new life, he learns from his wife that the child to be born is not his flesh and blood. The super-long shot from the treetops to the pond, overlooking the impermanence of life, calls out the Russian soul of Tarkovsky; an accident is enough to collapse the foundation of human relations. Constantine Laronico won the Cannes Film Award this year.
Alex (Konstantin Lavronanke) and his wife Vera (Maria Bonneville), with their children, arrive at the ancestral house in the countryside left by Alex's father, ready to live in the countryside. Have a vacation here. Away from the hustle and bustle of the city, this solitary retreat in the country is nestled between mountains and meadows. While the children are enjoying the fresh air of nature, Vera announces a surprising news to her husband inside the house: she is pregnant, but the child is not Alex's. The news is like a bolt from the blue, Alex almost collapses, and he pours out his inner pain to his trusted brother Mark. After a tough ideological struggle, Alex decides to take action, telling Vera that he wants her to abort the baby. Mark found an abortion doctor, but Vera did not escape the invitation of death. Alex, who lost his beloved wife, was almost mad, and he decided to return to the city and find his wife's lover for revenge. When the hidden secret is revealed, the audience is faced with an unexpected ending.
Lonely love and barriers to communication are themes that the director wants to explore, because of them, misunderstandings and tragedies occur.
The super-long shot from the treetops to the pond, overlooking the impermanence of life, calls out the Russian soul of Tarkovsky; an accident is enough to collapse the foundation of human relations.
The most striking thing about the film is the picture. Every stroke of nature is breathtakingly beautiful under the lens. However, it was in front of this green and vibrant picture that a tragedy happened, and the sky and grass suddenly turned yellow. In the confrontation between man and nature, the director tells the loneliness of human beings with metaphors.
The real life is more direct, richer and more real in women, who should have become purer and more human than men; men have no physical fruit, only live under the surface of life, arrogant and impatient, despising what they want. things to love. "Zuyakintsev is really one of the best Russian directors of the new generation.
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