In 2015, Anna Melikyan directed the romantic comedy movie diary “About Love”, packed full of movie stars. The film was highly appreciated by film critics and was awarded many prestigious awards. Therefore, it is not surprising that two years later her sequel appeared, which is an almanac of five romantic stories, on which six directors worked under the vigilant guidance of Anna Melikyan. In the film “About Love” (2017), the actors D. Malkovich, I. Dapkunaite, G. Kutsenko, F. Bondarchuk will demonstrate to the public the meaning of the subtitle of the picture - “For adults only”.
Compared
As in the original tape, the 2017 movie narrative is framed and connected into a single story by an open lecture on the psychological characteristics of love, which is listened to by almost all participants in the events. Moreover, each of the novels of the almanac “About love. For adults only ”it is autonomous, they can be shown to the public as separate short films. According to the critics' verdict, the sequel is more superficial and primitive than the previous picture, which told intriguing and original stories. According to their authoritative opinion, in the 2017 almanac, only the fourth short story directed by Evgeny Shelyakin can be called unpredictable. Although in the film “About Love” (2017), the actors are involved exclusively stellar.
Non-kids games
The actors of the film “About Love” (2017) told the audience a story similar to the beginnings of the 2015 film. But this time, a foreign professor (John Malkovich) came to entertain the metropolitan audience with a lecture on platonic love and sex. Many lovers of White Stone gathered to listen to him. For example, a police officer brought up in Puritan austerity (Ravshana Kurkova), who accidentally begins an affair with a stranger (Alexander Pal). Or a smug leading actor in the Russian film industry (Maxim Matveev), whose genetic material wants to get a wealthy childless married couple (V. Isakova and F. Bondarchuk). Here, a couple, tired of 15 years of marriage, (Fedor Lavrov and Anna Mikhalkova), who decided to try herself in swinging with a younger couple, played by the actors of the film “About Love” (2017) L. Ilyashenko and V. Yaglych, hears the story. The heroine will not do without the problems of the puberty period (Yasmina Omerovich), trying to get rid of her virginity by resorting to the help of her father’s friend (Gosha Kutsenko). But in the end, everything will end well for everyone.
Minor in the dominant
The four-story happy ending in the elegant fifth story will be overshadowed by the dominance of minority. The main protagonist of the final episode of the almanac is John Malkovich himself, who perfectly copes with the image of mental torment of a spouse who is ready to cheat on his wife, while not ready to put up with her possible adultery. This is the third project on the set of which Malkovich and Ingeborga Dapkunaite meet and interact. These actors of the film “About Love” (2017) starred in the foreign projects “On Stage” and “Shadow of the Vampire”.