September 2015 pleased viewers with the start of the lyrical comedy “It Can't Be Better”. The content of the film from the first series caught the audience with a touch of humor and a beloved story about Cinderella, but vice versa. The name of the film describes the beautiful life of a married couple, in which the husband is a banker and the wife is a beauty. The couple has been married for 10 years, the son goes to school, there is a charismatic nanny, and the house is a full bowl. However, everything at the moment disappears after her husband’s statement that he no longer loves his Victoria. And the situation instantly acquires the opposite description - "it does not happen worse." What will end such a disastrous state of affairs for the main character?
Classic story
In the tale of Cinderella, the girl, living with an evil stepmother, did all the dirty work, and then, finding her prince, she began to live in the palace. The content of the episodes of the movie “It Can't Be Better” tells the same story about Cinderella. But only at first the heroine Victoria lives a carefree life, which at one moment sharply becomes diametrically opposite. Her husband, Andrey Chernov, runs the bank, thereby creating the most favorable conditions for the existence of his family. Everything is really so that it does not get better. The content of the film would be boring, talking about the carefree life of the characters, so the plot takes on a piquant moment.
There comes a day when the couple celebrate a decade of their happy family life. It would seem, a holiday, friends, recognition ... Nothing portends a sad end to the evening. But the wealthy head of the family decides to overshadow the triumph. Instead of words of love, he reports about fading feelings for his wife and that he has another woman.
And a new life begins with a young but abandoned Vicki. Her goal now is to feed herself and the baby.
Cry or laugh?
The situation in which the heroine found herself is really "better than ever." The content of the film from the end of the first series suggests a compassionate story about the difficult fate of Victoria. Just about she will start working as a cleaner, no one will need to go to junk, and near the blue screens her share will be mourned by housewives and pensioners. But the director Yevgeny Semenov and screenwriter Anastasia Kasumova created such a funny picture that viewers, if they have to cry, are only laughing.
"What kind of jokes can there be?" - the person who has read the summary of the film “It Can't Be Better” will think. In fact, the situations that await the characters, phrases and musical accompaniment of the series are all saturated with high-quality humor and ease. Therefore, I can not wait to start watching the next series. The mood in which the viewer is in a comedy can be compared to the animation that comes from good communication.
Best of 1997: Making an Analogy
A brief summary of the film “It Can't Be Better” (Russia) consists of a story about a young girl, and a romantic comedy with the same name, shot in 1997 in the USA, tells the story of a middle-aged and eccentric writer. The success of the viewer, the excellent play of the actors and their sense of humor unites both films.
In the western comedy film, the main characters were played by Jack Nicholson and expressive Helen Hunt. Nicholson turned into the role of Melvin, a misanthrope with a mental disorder, and Helen into the waitress Carol, who is sympathetic to the quirks of a regular visitor to the cafe where she works. The third hero who played an important role in uniting two incompatible personalities was a gay artist (actor G. Kinnir). All these people became friends, despite their dissimilarity. Here is a summary of the movie “It Can't Be Better”, which came to us from 1997.
The cast of the Russian series
The Russian lyrical comedy has a wonderful cast. A. Tsekalo, producer of the film, wrote about this in his interview. The pretty Marina Konyashkina perfectly turned into the role of the deceived Victoria, who by the end of the film had won the hearts of two men at once. One of these lovers will be her husband. The role of the banker Chernov was assigned to Dmitry Shevchenko. He is familiar to the public, both Ukrainian and Russian. His last projects were Major and Battalion.
Who else became a prominent character in the series “Better Nothing”? The content of the film dictates the presence of a nanny in it. This is one of the brightest characters in the comedy. When watching, it even seems that Irina Pegova, with her courage, overshadows the dramatic role of Konyashkina. By the way, Irina came up with the image of her heroine herself.
The son of the Chernov family was played by the young Ilya Matyushin. “It was very easy to work with him,” admitted Marina Konyashkina.
Separate role for Peter
A special "protagonist" in the Russian lyrical comedy is St. Petersburg. Many people know that gray colors are characteristic of the city, which are not able to emphasize the comic mood inherent in the film. However, the shooting took place in the summer, and Peter appeared in front of the viewer with bright streets reflecting the sky of the Neva and the sunny walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress. The creative team visited many iconic places: Palace Square, Nevsky Prospekt, Promenade des Anglais. Separate shifts were allotted to the operator for shooting city landscapes of St. Petersburg.
Thanks to the good weather and professionalism of the team, this city has become the center of the picture and another main character. A. Tsekalo said that Peter appeared before the viewer as bright, light and interesting as the history of the series.
Behind the scenes
An interesting episode happened at the beginning of the work on the project “It Can't Be Better”. According to the plot of the film, after Andrei tells Victoria about his intentions to part with her, a girl in a fairy costume and with a tear-stained face should have walked along Nevsky Prospect. During the shooting of the double at some distance from the actress Marina Konyashkina, cameras and members of the film crew followed. Suddenly the car braked sharply, an intelligent St. Petersburg man jumped out of it and began to console the actress. Marina so believably conveyed the feelings of her abandoned wife that a third-party person had a desire to calm the girl.
The second case is interesting in the decoration of an expensive restaurant, which in the film is shown to the viewer in the form of a supermarket with a non-standard interior. This place is central in the film, because in it Victoria will begin to be realized as a person and will meet a man dear to his heart.
The summary of the series of the movie “It Can't Be Better” cannot leave indifferent any lover of wonderful comedies.