The film “Breakfast at the Pope” is sometimes a predictable, periodically unexpected romantic glamorous comedy about heroes who are not bound by love bonds, but have a common child.
Synopsis
The project of director Maria Kravchenko was shot in the serial format of TNT and STS channels, in the style of a family home video, in which there is a place for love drama and good, good humor. The comedy turned out, without exaggeration, to be extremely pleasant. The director in her project does not try to turn the world upside down or invent something revolutionary, innovative: in comedy, they traditionally fight on pillows, ridiculously fall from beds, famously descend from the notorious roller coaster. Almost all the time, songs are sounded - a variety of musical compositions that develop into a musical accompaniment suitable for the plot.
In general, everything is like in any professionally executed romcom - traditionally and by standard. At the same time, critics, analyzing “Breakfast at the Pope”, noted bright heroes in the reviews, whom you empathize with and sympathize with - from the sometimes ridiculous Oksana to little Ali.
Family magic
The comedy “Breakfast at the Pope” effortlessly claims an exemplary title in the category “good movie about the main thing”, which is very beloved by the audience. The history of the reunion by chance of an unformed family was told by the authors inventively and not boringly. Naturally, in real life such a situation would be more dramatic, but on the screen the whole narrative turns into a series of funny situations.
The film “Breakfast at the Pope” does not have negative characters and tragic accidents, but it has a lot of easy jokes, funny situations and confidence that as a result everything will be fine. However, behind the seemingly simple simplicity of the narrative, the well-developed concept of family themes and female hopes is hidden. The picture is remarkable not only for a detailed demonstration of the quite typical characters of the heroes, but also for the surrounding atmosphere, in which the action is rapidly developing.
Applied Timelapse once again emphasizes the accelerating inexorable rhythm of the big city, recalling that contemporaries do not always have time for expression of feelings, mental activity, a tendency to philosophical reasoning. It is no coincidence that many viewers, after watching the comedy “Breakfast at Daddy”, left favorable comments indicating a hidden moral message of the project.
Short storyline
The plot of the movie “Breakfast at Daddy” is famously twisted around a ten-year-old baby from St. Petersburg named Ala (actress Louise-Gabriela Brovina), who suddenly finds out that her father Alexander (actor Yuri Kolokolnikov) was not a heroically killed submariner, at present while he is alive and well, while occupying a weighty position as creative director of one of the advertising companies Belokamennaya. Moving away from the shock, the girl, taking advantage of the working trip of Yulia’s mother (performed by Katerina Shpitsa) to Moscow, escapes to the capital, searches for her father and comes to his home. The man has no idea that he has a daughter, so he is incredulous about the story of the child.
However, in the current situation, Ali is completely led by the fact that the potential investor of his company, a businessman from the USA, is obsessed with family values. Therefore, the appearance of the daughter of an advertiser is very helpful, along with her and her colleague-lover Oksana Tarelkina (Polina Maksimova), the hero is trying to portray the ideal cell of society. At the same time, Titov is trying to win a tender in which his main competitor is the long-forgotten love Julia (mother of Ali). This is the simple intrigue of the comedy "Breakfast at the pope." Reviews of film critics in every possible way emphasized her naivety and predictability.
Everything is traditional, everything by genre standards
In the course of the story, the comedy “Breakfast at the Pope” is pretty deeply immersed in the wisdom of advertising creativity. To get around the competitors, Julia and Alexander have to perform unexpected tasks of the investor, such as “come up with cocoa advertising, which in the sense combine biblical events and family love” - this contest becomes the main intrigue of the film. Naturally, the denouement of the key storyline is clear from the first minutes of timing (romcoms do not differ in the variety of climaxes), but the questions that arise during the viewing, the plot moves, and the actions of the main characters are really intriguing.
True, nothing in the plot twists and turns of the dramatic, and even more tragic, is not, since the outcome of the tender is of great importance for the plot narrative. Nevertheless, in the romance “Breakfast at the Pope”, the reviews praised the zeal of the screenwriters Yuliana Koshkina and Anna Rudnitskaya, who managed to invent something really interesting, and not just brought together a man and a woman in the frame, writing “romantic comedy” on top.
Actors and roles. Father
In the movie "Breakfast at the Pope" Yuri Kolokolnikov played the role of a successful businessman, a resident of the metropolis, a big-time advertising business with a huge apartment and a decent ego, in which the daughter invades the measured life. Accustomed not to waste a single minute on others around, the hero is an ideal image of an inveterate bachelor from a joke with a biased attitude towards women and life in general. For him, every thing has its price, he does not know priceless moments, and for the rest he always has MasterCard at hand. It is very curious to observe the transformation of the character, attitudes and addictions of the hero in the comedy “Breakfast at the Pope”. Yuri Kolokolnikov is known to the audience by the films “In August of the 44th”, “Cook”, “Kitty”, “Poddubny” and “State Counselor”.
Mischievous Fidget
The young talent of Louise-Gabriela Brovin has a Russian surname and a double Spanish name. Little actress Russian by mother and Cuban by father. When the actors recruited for “Breakfast at the Pope”, it was her remarkable appearance that became an additional bonus during the casting. Playing the role of a ten-year-old heroine, Louise-Gabriela perfectly copes with the task set by the director.
A sentimental viewer should recommend the tape for viewing, if only because for an hour and a half they have to watch with affection the charming and sweet, but militant and adventurous, practically not discouraging baby. At some moments, it was not easy for cute Ekaterina Shpitsa and imposing Kolokolnikov to meet the pressure and organicness of young talent.
Main load carriers
For the humor in the Kravchenko project, two stars of Russian cinema Katerina Shpitsa and Polina Maksimova are “responsible”. However, this fact is not surprising, because the rum is a predominantly female subgenre, and the director wisely allows you to solo the actresses, in the film “Breakfast at the pope” male actors go by the wayside. Katerina Shpitsa (“Crew”, “Metro”, “Poddubny”) plays the role of a talented and smart, but a little strange and too emotional woman, whose feelings sometimes take precedence over the mind.
The comedic gift of Polina Maksimova (“Little Girls”, “Only They Are Not”, “I Remember - I Don't Remember!”) Allowed the actress to create an ambiguous image in which the victim and the predator, the ugly and the beautiful, the winner and the loser, causing both pity and interest, are combined, and laughter. The idea of the heroine Maximova about the household is exhausted after putting on a beautiful kitchen apron, and she needs to portray an approximate wife in a conservative sense.
Other actors also have funny moments, but Polina Maximoma and Katerina Spitsa in “Breakfast at the Pope” bear the main load.
Guest British actor
Anglo-Polish actor Valentin Pelka, best known as the performer of the role of the Kronos antagonist in the television movie "Highlander", is perhaps the most unexpected member of the film's ensemble. He reincarnated as an American investor obsessed with family values. It was very unexpected to see the British in the Russian romkom, and even as a performer of one of the key roles. Although his character turns out to be practically the best person in the movie - insightful, a little eccentric, wise and fair, sincerely religious and in a good way old-fashioned. The character of Valentine Pelka serves as a moral compass, according to which Alexander Titov reconcile his life.