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...Sergei Ursulyak is a visually daring director, and his film features many arresting sequences. Misha meets a stunning mystery woman on his first night in Moscow and later encounters her again alone on the subway. Too dejected to speak, he stays in the car. The camera moves away with the car, filming the solitary woman until blackness engulfs...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Finally, a Festival Worth Seeing | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...beginning of the film contains another visual treat: a sly reference to Saturday Night Fever. As Misha steps off the train in Moscow clad in beige plaid and an orange scraf, he participates in a crazed dance sequence before Ursulyak rapidly cuts to a more somberly dressed Misha, stripped of his fantasies, standing in a drizzle outside the train station. At the end of the film, Misha's brightly colored Moscow fades into gray...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Finally, a Festival Worth Seeing | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

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