I originally wanted to go to the AVIGNON Utopia Cinema to watch Wang Xiaoshuai's "Long Time". I accidentally asked the lady at the front of the team how many times the film was watched, and I knew that LETO (Russian, summer) was only shown once during the Avignon Film Week. Nominated for the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Simply change the original plan to tomorrow.
The director who originally planned to come to the scene was absent for some reason, and the audience joked that it was the director's JOUR RELACHE (rest day). Before the opening, a woman gave us a brief introduction to the two male protagonists of the film and the actual actors.
LETO is a film adapted by Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov based on the real life of Viktor Choi, the Korean lead singer of the legendary Russian band KINO, showing Leningrad in the 1980s, The hot-blooded story of rock and roll youths using music to smash the closed and conservative social reality.
Instead of glittering celebrity biographies, Kirill Serebrennikov has instead singled out a relatively sluggish, peaceful experience before Viktor Choi's rise to fame, before his music career was on the right track. Daily hard work. In the film, Victor Choi meets Mike, the lead singer of the band ZOO, and Mike's wife at a rock club in Leningrad. With the help of Mike, Victor Choi's first underground concert was very successful, but as the daily contact gradually deepened, the emotions of the three fell into an unclear entanglement.
In the film, the director also uses music to tell about that era, the era when lyrics were censored, the era when rock and roll could only exist underground, and the era when individual will was under siege. We hear the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, and Billy Joel. They rebelled against the Western world with their music, and in the Soviet Union in the 80s, young people in rock clubs in Leningrad were underground, in houses, singing about life and everything they loved in Russian.
At the end of the film, the director said: "I would like to dedicate this film to everything we love."
View more about Leto reviews
