Why is it so difficult to maintain relationships in the modern world? With this question begins the film 2017 "About love. For adults only." Trying to find an answer to it determines the main idea of the movie.
"About love. For adults only": reviews
As you would expect, the viewers' opinion about the film is exactly the opposite. By the way, an interesting fact: about the film "About love only for adults", positive reviews most often come from young people. Opinion of film critics is also divided. Some believe that the quality of the film is average, the topic of relations between people is shown superficially, and all jokes are below the belt. Others believe that the director raised very important topics that concern people regardless of age: human complexes that interfere with building relationships, loneliness, the intimate side of life. According to surveys, 78% of viewers liked the film. Nevertheless, reviews about "About love. Only for adults" should not prevent you from watching a film and make your own judgment about it.
Director's work
The film was released on the screens of the country's cinemas on September 1, 2017, and the premiere screening took place at the closing of the film festival in Sochi. This is a continuation of the film "About Love", shot by Anna Melikyan. “About love. For adults only” 2017 is a joint work of several directors: Anna Melikyan, who is also the producer of the film, Pavel Ruminov, Alexei Chupov, Nigina Sayfullaeva, Natalya Merkulova and Rezo Gigineishvili. That is, each story, and there are five, has its own director. In addition, each episode is accompanied by music videos, lecturer statements, telephone messages or shots from popular movies - all this is logically connected with the plot "About love. Only for adults." The genre of the film is erotic comedy.
Plot of the film
As mentioned above, the basis of the plot "About love. Only for adults" has five separate stories, episodes that are not interconnected, and their main semantic center is a lecture by the author of a book on the psychology of relations.
The first episode is the story of a female investigator raised by an authoritarian mother who told her daughter that men are evil. As a result, a strong, smart, beautiful woman is lonely. She dreams of finding her man, but she doesn’t even make any real attempts to realize this dream, following the instructions of her mother, never take the first step and never show that the man is of interest to you. Ultimately, acquaintance with Victor and attraction to him helps the heroine find happiness.
The second story is about a couple trying to save their marriage with the Swingland site. The experiment was a success: Vera’s husband realized that he was not going to share his wife with anyone and that he didn’t need any other woman, and Vera didn’t stop loving her husband.
After this episode, the lecturer demonstrates an experiment with spouses who have been married for 17 years, confirming his words that years spent together are important, since an energy connection is established between a man and a woman, which can be measured. The essence of the experiment is as follows: they put a helmet on their spouse with sensors that read brain activity, the results are visible on the screen, volunteers take turns putting their hands on his shoulders. He reacts to the touch of his wife’s hands in a special way, it is at this moment that he is fixed that he is in the zone of psychological comfort and feels complete safety.
The following story is about how a young girl, Anechka, is ready to give her virginity to any man, even her father’s friend, in order to attract the attention of a guy she likes, not realizing that she first needs love. And this love was near - this is a boy in love with her, whom Anechka considered a friend and whose feelings jealousy made manifest.
In the film "About love. Only for adults", according to the audience, the story of the politician and his wife, who decided to conceive a child from a famous actor, is comical and tragic at the same time. The problem is the same - complexes. A man considers himself ugly and does not want the child to repeat his fate. Watching a stormy quarrel between spouses, the actor realizes that these people love each other and repeats the words he heard at the lecture that the child conceived in love has a better chance of being healthy and happy. He says that he himself is a moral freak, because he is not sure if she is at all, this love.
The last, fifth story in the film "About Love. Only for Adults" begins with a question about treason posed by the mistress of the lecturer. So, a person who says that he condemns everything that can hurt a partner and ruin a relationship, cheats on his wife, with whom he lived in marriage for many years. He is going to tell his wife about his romance, but an unexpected surprise awaits him: his wife Liz says that she wants sex with a young man and that she has an appointment for today. He lets his wife go out on a date, but when he hears the bell he joyfully throws himself at the door with the words: “Changed your mind?” His beloved wife’s cup in his lover’s hands annoys him. After a quarrel with a young girlfriend, the hero leaves the house and on the bench awaits the return of Liz, who was never able to carry out her plan.
The film "About love. Only for adults": actors and roles
Young actors who are just starting to act in films, such as Yasmina Omerovich, the performer of the role of Anechka, and Tinatin Dalakishvili, who played the young lover of the lecturer, take part in the picture. There are actors in the film "About Love. Adult Only", world-famous actors such as John Malkovich, who plays the role of a lecturer, an expert in the psychology of love. By the way, Tinatin, who got into the cinema by chance, is a landscape designer by profession. Behind the shoulders of some artists there are already more than a dozen roles, their names are well known, and their faces on the screen are recognizable. These are Ingeborga Dapkunaite (the lecturer's wife), Fedor Bondarchuk (a politician who considers himself ugly), Victoria Isakova (his wife), Anna Mikhalkova (teacher Vera Vasilievna), Gosha Kutsenko (aging lovelace). The film also stars Maxim Matveev as a famous actor, Fedor Lavrov (husband of a teacher), Ravshan Kurkova (investigator), Alexander Pal (Victor), Lukery Ilyashenko and Vladimir Yaglych played a couple practicing swinging, Gleb Kalyuzhny as a young man in love with Anechka.
John Malkovich
John Malkovich , the famous American actor, producer, director, who played the main role in the film “About Love. Adult Only”. He was born December 9, 1953 into a Croatian family living in America. To make his father happy, who wanted his son to become a huntsman, John entered the Faculty of Biology, which he abandoned, carried away by the theater. It was with work in the theater that his acting career began. The film debut took place in 1984 with participation in the film "Place in the Heart", where he played the role of a blind man who saved a black man from the hands of the Ku Klux Klan. The popularity of John Malkovich came after filming in the film "Dangerous Communications", in which he played the role of Viscount de Valmont. According to critics, this role is recognized as the best film work of Malkovich. To date, the actor has starred in almost a hundred films. Two films, “The Disgusting Man” of 2002 and “100 Years” of 2015, were shot according to his scripts. Behind his shoulders are three directorial works: "I'm Going Home" (2001), "Disgusting Man", "Dancing Upstairs" (2002). Malkovich’s work is highly appreciated by the cinema: he has 12 film awards, twice - in 1984 and in 1995 - received an Oscar in the nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Ingeborga Dapkunaite
Ingeborga Dapkunaite was born on January 20, 1963 in Vilnius. Her grandmother instilled in her love of the theater, therefore, after graduating from school, the girl entered the conservatory at the faculty of choral and theatrical art. At first, the actress played on the stage of the drama theater in Kaunas, then there was the Vilnius Youth Theater, where John Malkovich, who invited her to London to participate in the performance "Speech Mistakes," drew her attention. Ingeborg played her first film role in 1984 in the movie "My Little Wife." However, the all-Union popularity came to her after filming in the movie "Intergirl". In 1993, the actress was invited to Hollywood to participate in the TV series "Alaska Kid." In the tape of N. Mikhalkov "Burnt by the Sun", which received an Oscar, she played the role of Marousi. The actress starred a lot in Russia and abroad. Her last role was Empress Maria Fyodorovna in the film Matilda.
Gosha Kutsenko
In the film "About love. Only for adults" Gosha Kutsenko in the story played the role of Uncle Lesha, a family friend. Gosha (aka Yuri), after serving in the army, entered the MIREA, which he quit after studying 2 courses. Then he entered the Moscow Art Theater School and graduated in 1992. Popularity for the young actor did not come immediately, although the first time he starred in a movie in 1991. Kutsenko tried himself in the theater and on television, was engaged in teaching activities. The fame brought him the role of the former detective in the film "Antikiller". Now the artist is constantly shooting, from 2002 to 2017 he played 20 film roles.
Anna Mikhalkova
Anna Mikhalkova first appeared in films at the age of 12 in her father’s film "Anna: from 6 to 18". Graduated from the acting faculty of VGIK. The actress starred a lot, has awards: for her acting in the film "Live and Remember," she received the "Nika-2008" award. As a mother of three, she has been the host of Good Night, Babies since 2005.
Instead of a conclusion
You can tell a lot more about the film "About Love. Only for Adults" (2017), about roles, about the game of actors. The most important thing is that in the end, all the heroes of the stories come to the conclusion that love is more important than sex, and you need to value relationships while maintaining that energetic connection that gives a person a feeling of confidence and comfort.