Two Women (2014 film)
| Two Women | |
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| Directed by | Vera Glagoleva |
| Screenplay by | Svetlana Grudovich Olga Pogodina-Kuzmina |
| Produced by | Natalya Ivanova |
| Cinematography | Gints Berzins |
| Music by | Sergei Banevich |
Release date |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
Two Women (Template:Lang-ru Dve zhenshchiny) is a 2014 Russian drama film directed by Vera Glagoleva, starring Ralph Fiennes and Sylvie Testud. It is based on Ivan Turgenev's play A Month in the Country.
Cast
- Ralph Fiennes as Mikhail Rakitin
- Sylvie Testud as Elisavetta Bogdanovna
- Aleksandr Baluev as Alexey Islaev
- Larisa Malevannaya as Anna Semenovna
- Bernd Moss as Schaaf
- Anna Vartanyan as Natalya Petrovna Islaeva
- Sergey Yushkevich as Ignaty Shpigelsky
- Vasiliy Mishchenko as Bolshentsov
- Anna Levanova as Verochka
- Nikita Volkov as Alexey Belyaev
Reception
Clarence Tsui of The Hollywood Reporter wrote:
Fiennes' superficial turn (in more ways than one, as his lines ended up overdubbed by a Russian voice actor) is hampered more by circumstances than ability: rather than playing on the multiple possibilities underlining Turgenev's once-transgressive comedy of manners, actress-turned-filmmaker Vera Glagoleva's 21st century take is a po-faced, straitjacketed affair, as she (and her screenwriters Svetlana Grudovich and Olga Pogodina-Kuzima) play out the entangled relationships as excessively affected period drama. While certainly lushly mounted, Two Women is at best a piece of dated heritage cinema, and at worst cliche-ridden pomp.[1]
References
- ^ Tsui, Clarence (2014-09-18). "'Two Women' ('Dve Zhenshchiny'): Vladivostok Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2016-06-28.