In nearly five and a half hours-divided into five huge chapters-Julia Locktiv “is my unwanted friends: the first part-the last air in Moscow” is similar to typical documents, and more than that closer to “war and peace” in Tolstoy. “The first volume in a series of two parts about independent correspondents, and it puts its transformations and turns early: at some point during its operation, Russia will launch a large -scale invasion of Ukraine. Capitating this war and its consequences has never the intention of Loktev, but the development of the film (Ksarb, and as DIY production). It is a vital part of its text.
What started as a piece of friends and colleagues in Luktev, who describe their description of “foreign agents” by the Russian state in the actual time. It is even forced to switch the heroes at some point, due to the escalating logistical challenges caused by the ongoing conflict. While Loktev was intending to work with a professional cinematic photographer, she would finally end with a lot of film on the iphone X, which resulted in realistic colors and an amazing intimate relationship that was rarely seen in political documentary films.
One question will undoubtedly be in the minds of most viewers: Can a document like this maintain one’s interest for 324 minutes, even with a break? The answer is “Yes, then some”, due to the long, informal basis that the film places during its first three chapters (each of them is about an hour, giving or taking) using conversation excerpts, news footage and even its subjects “written reports that appear as a text on the screen. Loktev. The American born in the Soviets is a relative strange, but its window (and our trend) in the scene of the press in Moscow is Anna Nimser, and she is the mother of conscience She is trying to do the right thing to face the repressive system in Russia, and Locktev’s manager.
Nemzer works with Rain Independent Outlet TV, where the dialogue program “Who got power?” It focuses on activists who seek positive changes in Russian policy. However, the new laws forced channels such as rain (and both journalists) to announce themselves “foreign agents” in evacuating the lengthy responsibility, which re -directs the topics of the film with joy.
To see “my unwanted friends: the first part” is to live next to its personalities, and to grow quickly not only their hustle and bustle in the news room, but in their general year and pop culture. Whether you have moved away from the movie that speaks Russian fluently or not, there is a non -zero opportunity that will be uttered by “Harry Potter” in the Russian way (“Garry Potter”, given the extent of the repetition of the series of imagination as the file of the comparison between the fascist retreat Russia.
Drawing these communications may be a corridor and ancient for some, but here, they flourish the momentum Sami Bokilla, the little but dated.
Loktev, who edited the movie alongside Michael Taylor, knows that Silence is a vital dramatic commodity, so it uses it wisely. However, the continuous gossip in some way never grows frequent, whether it includes journalists discussing their families and partners of the same sex, or engaging in talks about mechanics that they will face if they are chosen even outside the line. Perhaps this is due to the fact that Loktev has been introduced by a wide range through which you can choose, but most likely the reason is the basic reality in which these people live, and the new standards that break it every day, and “Natural Life” includes achieving a balance between fun, Panys and dread at a time One, on dinner and drinks. These dimensions are detailed and loving, ensuring that every unloading is a new offer saturated with a dynamic multi -faceted humanity.
A second movie, entitled “My Unwanted Friends: Part Two – Exile”, was launched, and it is scheduled to be later this year. Meanwhile, “Part One” revolves around changing political sand as much as the meeting of journalism and society in the face of stabilization of legal obstacles and infringement of tyranny. All of these aspects are forced to collide when the invasion of February 2022 flows, and the lives of people (and in this process, the documentary itself) turns upside down. Three hours after that, its focus is forced to move to a novice journalist, Ksenia Mionova (although he maintains most of his original support “the actor”), who is his partner as a prisoner of the state, who will soon face the truth Anyone who reports war.
Friendship occupies the position of the lead in the second half of the film, which builds amazing climate moments from a variety “I can’t believe that on the camera.” Loktev in this work provides a pulse quality when things collapse, which leads to an intimate, terrible and urgent political image of talking about the truth to power and speaking together.