It's an imposing, almost unbelievably smooth Russian film because it's so "good-looking".
In "My Father and Mother", Zhang Yimou meticulously planned the love of that era and tricked us into being young and ignorant. In such a poor time of needing flour, no flour, and whiteness, the "mother" has always been able to do whatever she wants.
Because beautiful love needs scallion pancakes like that for decoration.
"Good-looking", even too good-looking, the question comes back to Mikhalkov, will Russia be like that? Fighting each other to celebrate the holidays in winter, elaborate fireworks in super luxurious carnivals. As a result, he fell into the same embarrassing situation as Zhang Yimou in Russia: he was constantly questioned whether this "good-looking" was created in order to please European and American audiences, because he was Mikhalkov, not a fledgling.
But in any case, 3 hours of heartyness makes it difficult to give up. This is a good movie, and it is a very famous movie with a special atmosphere.
If you are interested in Mikhalkov himself, you can fully recall the face of the tsar in the movie, that is himself.
In and out of the movie, he is supreme.
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