"Portrait in the twilight": reviews of an atypical love story

This movie can be called author's bold. Director-debutant Angelina Nikonova shot it with a camera in less than a month. According to the audience, the drama of the society is the main message of the film "Portrait in the Twilight." Comments on the picture, interesting facts of the creation, biographies of the performers of the main roles will be considered further.

Lars von Trier - woman

Once unknown to anyone Angelina Nikonova lived in Rostov. After arranging her personal life, she moved to America, but she did not forget about her love for her native city. So much that I decided to make it a place for the development of the plot of my future film. "Portrait at dusk" (2011) is a creation completely created by her hands. The young director was a screenwriter and producer.

Since the release of the picture in her address, a lot of responses have sprung up. And let some of them not always bear a pleasant shade, Nikonov was pleased - her offspring claimed a number of foreign cinematographic awards, and she was compared to the great Danish director.

Perverted love

Social story, impregnated with rigidity - the basis on which the "Portrait in the twilight" is born. The reviews of the picture looked unanimously called her a strong drama. The story unfolding on the screen is in many ways sad and tragic. But also this is the only opportunity for the main character to look at life with other eyes.

Marina has long lost the ability to enjoy simple things. Feeling lonely in everything, she fled from her city to Rostov. There, left without money and phone, a young woman is attacked by a member of the postal service. Returning home, she intends to take revenge on the rapist. Pursuing him, Marina falls in love with Andrei, forcing him to experience her reciprocal feelings.

Internal motives

The national film "Portrait in the Twilight" examines the personal qualities of Marina. The director managed to create a contradictory, complex image. Some critics saw Marina as a woman who completely exposed the inner world, others considered her a bit "strange." Otherwise, for whatever reason, does the heroine fall in love with a person who has outraged her?

The parallelism of the worlds in which the characters live is another feature of the "Portrait at Twilight" tape. The reviews prove this parallelism. It seemed, from the impression that came from the first acquaintance with Marina and Andrey, it is impossible to imagine that their such different worlds can intersect. The woman personifies a class of modern people looking at the environment "through". Moderately ambitious and, naturally, with her "cockroaches in my head," she can easily cross the line, if necessary.

A man has his own life priorities. According to Andrei, it is difficult to imagine that he is capable of a crime. And even more stunning is the fact that, because of his cruelty and heartlessness, Marina, thrown out onto the street, loses confidence in everything.

Shame of true love

Special admirers of the author's cinema noted that the film "Portrait at Twilight" adopts foreign trends of Jim Jarmusch. Before us appears a painfully familiar story, when it is necessary to go to hell, to get out of there changed. The main character in her rapist-lover sees an opportunity to get rid of the remnants of the past. Was not her life worthless? To feel real, you must go through the fire of contempt, hatred, and discovery.

An honest movie that can not be found on the screen

The material shown in the picture is gloomy, this creates an additional entourage of tragedy. Yesterday's self-confident rich man is lowered to the very bottom. Where it is more interesting - the heroine herself allows herself to do it, pursuing while not clear to anybody the purpose. Comparing the film with "St. George's Day", we can say that, unlike the image of Xenia, Rappoport Marina returns capable of a new life.

What else distinguishes the "Portrait at dusk"? Critics' reviews call an important merit the need to show love in the unusual state in which it is represented. But is not the woman's initially distressed state of mind making her stronger? Finding love, she shows it to Andrei. Do not expect that he will accept it immediately. A man also needs time. Despite all the parallelism and convention, these characters demonstrate the ability to deploy fate in a different direction.

"Portrait in the twilight". Actors of social-personal drama

A native of Belarus, Olga Dykhovichnaya moved to Moscow in the late 1990s, where she got a job with VID. Wife cinematographer Ivan Dykhovichny, she worked with him in one direction. Getting experience, Olga tried to make films, wrote scripts, and later became the main person of the festival "Tomorrow". At the same time, Olga did not forget about her acting career, periodically shooting in various films.

With Angelina Novikova, Dykhovichna quickly found a common language. The women again worked together on the Velka Hom tape.

Sergei Borisov was not going to become an actor. By profession, he is a policeman. This is what greatly contributed to Sergei's assertion of the role of policeman Andrew. "Portrait ..." is not the only film work. Borisov starred in "Coco", "Leviathan", the series "Search."

Brilliant originality

For those who love sharp social pictures, a good example will be the world-renowned "Portrait at Twilight". The trailer, like the movie itself, is available online on many Internet portals. Do not forget that it contains scenes of violence. Erotic subtext, according to viewers, has become a beautiful outer shell, fully revealed the main idea.