Russian Soul: Strong, Wild, and Out-of-Control
The relationship between two urban Muscovite girls is intense and becomes more so when they go to a Crimean resort town to meet the father Olya has never seen before.
Sergey's daughter gets cold feet at the last moment but Sasha pushes the plot and offers to stand-in for the real daughter. The acting is convincing, the plot a bit chilling when the wheels come off and the girls (and Olya's father too) are faced with the sad reality of their lives.
Both women are attractive but Sasha is far more adventurous than she should be. There's an added element of sexy, even to the tease of incest. You knew Sasha was going to be trouble for the male species when she appears in the first frames in her denim Daisy Duke jeans cut even higher than the ones in "Dukes of Hazzard."
There's more to the film than the suggestion of free-wheeling teenagers facing the full bloom of their sexuality. Both girls grow up without fathers (though Olya gets a step-father) and this creates a deficit in their lives which has much to do with the unresolved issues they have in finding themselves.
It's a good film with only a few stumbles, and different from how its themes would be addressed in an American film. You know that Russian soul - strong, wild, and out of control.
Directed by Nigina Sayfullaeva. With Konstantin Lavronenko, Aleksandra Bortich, Marina Vasileva, Kirill Kaganovich.
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