The film "Life Ahead", reviews of which are collected in this article, is the comedy of Karen Hovhannisyan. The tape was released on Russian screens on October 5. The film attracted many viewers with a large number of famous actors involved on the set. These are Svetlana Khodchenkova, Alexander Pal, Pavel Priluchny, Arthur Smolyaninov, Maxim Vitorgan, Valeria Kozhevnikova.
Plot of the film
The film "Life Ahead", reviews of which can be read in this article, tells about a normal evening of alumni meetings. But he is ordinary only at first glance.
Graduates of the 11th “B” class first come together after school, 15 years after graduation. This meeting for many becomes an unexpected revelation, thanks to it they manage to find out about people they have known for a long time that they have hidden for many years.
For participants in an evening of graduate meetings, this is a great opportunity to, even for a short time, return to the distant and carefree past. I remember old secrets, personal insults, first love. All this turns into a real whirlpool of passions.
Cast: Svetlana Khodchenkova
For their work in the film "Life Ahead," the actors received positive ratings from viewers and critics. One of the main roles was played by Svetlana Khodchenkova. She played Lyudmila.
Khodchenkova is a famous Russian actress, the owner of amazing talent. For her debut role in the movie, she was immediately awarded the prize for best actress at the Nika Film Festival. The jury appreciated the image of Vera, which she created in the melodrama of Stanislav Govorukhin "Bless the Woman."
In 2008, at the festival of Polish feature films in Gdynia, the actress received an award for the role of Vera Svetlova in the historical drama by Waldemar Krzystek "Little Moscow". It was a joint Polish-Russian project.
In 2012, Khodchenkova was called the "actress of the year." She received the Georges Award for this. This is an award based on the vote of ordinary viewers, not film industry experts. It is worth noting that 2012 was saturated for Khodchenkova. She played in the melodramatic detective Andrei Shcherbinin "Surprise Me", the satirical comedy of Marius Weisberg "Rzhevsky against Napoleon", the lyrical comedy "Mom", the comedy of David Dodson and Alexander Malyarevsky "The Eight First Dates", the film catastrophe Anton Megerdichev.
In 2014, her role in the historical film "Vasilisa" by Anton Sivers about the heroine of the Patriotic War of 1812 was evaluated by the jury of the Pyongyang International Film Festival. She received a prize for Best Actress.
Alexander Pal
In the film “Life Ahead,” actor Alexander Pal plays one of the 11th grade “B” graduates named Gennady. In fact, this is the main male role.
Pal has become mega-popular in recent years. Real fame came to him in 2015, when he received the prize for best actor in the youth drama comedy by Mikhail Mestetsky "Rag Union".
The biography of his family is tragic and unusual. These are Russian Germans who ended up in the Urals as a result of repressions. Alexander Pal himself was born in Chelyabinsk. Received acting education at GITIS in the creative workshop of the People's Artist of Russia Leonid Kheyfets.
On the big screen, he made his debut in 2013 in the tragicomedy “Gorky!”, Playing the role of Roma’s brother named Lech. Then there was Timur Bekmambetov’s comedy “Firs 1914”, the comedy thriller Ilya and Anton Chizhikovs “The guy from our cemetery”, in which he played the main role, the comedy by Dmitry Dyachenko and Maxim Sveshnikov “Wonderland”, the comedy by Oksana Karas “The Good Boy”.
Pavel Priluchny
Pavel Priluchny in the film "Life Ahead", according to reviews, played one of the most prominent roles. He got a character named Michael.
Priluchny hails from the Kazakh SSR. He graduated from the Russian Academy of Theater Arts. He played in the theater on Malaya Bronnaya, the Pushkin Drama Theater, Bulgakov House.
He became a popular actor in contemporary Russian cinema after the release of the adventure action movie Pavel Sanaev "On the Game".
Priluchny received a number of professional awards for his role as Igor Sokolovsky in the TV series Major. Repeatedly nominated for the best Russian actor of the year.
Arthur Smolyaninov
Judging by the reviews of the film "Life Ahead", many remember the work of Arthur Smolyaninov. He got the role of Grigory Kiselyov, nicknamed Kisel.
Smolyaninov got into the cinema, thanks to the writer and director Valery Priyemykhov. In 1998, he starred in the main role in his melodrama "Who, If Not Us." He played the teenager Tolyasik, who, after robbing a department store, ended up in a juvenile colony. Arthur at that time was 14 years old.
He received all-Russian recognition after the role of Lyuty in the military drama of Fedor Bondarchuk "9 companies", dedicated to the events of the war in Afghanistan. At the same time, he began to play in the Sovremennik Theater. Among his recent works, one should single out Nikita Mikhalkov’s military drama Burnt by the Sun 2: The Citadel, Bakhtier Khudoynazarov’s multi-part drama Heter Major Sokolov, the gangster comedy of Emilis Velivis Zaneslo.
Maxim Vitorgan
In many reviews of the film "Life Ahead", critics and viewers praise the acting. Special mention deserves Maxim Vitorgan.
Maxim is the son of the national artist of Russia Emanuel Vitorgan, who played more than a hundred roles in the movie. He began his acting career at the Lenkom Theater. Also known as a director. In the mid-2000s he put “Blue Light” on REN TV channel, “First Night with Oleg Menshikov” on NTV, for several years he was one of the organizers of the rock festival “Invasion”.
The role of DJ Max in the film “Quartet I”, as well as the game in the films “Election Day”, “ Radio Day ” and “What Men Talk About” brought him popularity in the cinema.
Valeria Kozhevnikova
Among the female characters of this picture, the audience also remembered the image that Valery Kozhevnikov created on the screen . She played Alla.
A native of Nizhny Tagil Kozhevnikov became famous on Russian television for working in TV shows. First of all, in the multi-part melodrama Queen of Beauty, which aired on the Russia-1 channel. In this film, she played a vivid and simultaneously tragic role of Dina Radova.
In 2014, she was remembered by many viewers in the image of actress Anna Stepantsova in the series Karen Hovhannisyan "Klim", which is an adaptation of the British serial detective Luther.
A real breakthrough for Kozhevnikova was working with the English director Adrian Vitoria, who shot the adventure action movie "Age of Heroes", the action movie "Because we are a gang." Valeria played in his film "Leni. Leni" young Leni Riefenstahl. This is the famous German documentary producer Triumph of Will and Olympia, which the Nazis actively used for propaganda purposes.
Viewers reviews about the picture
In their reviews of the movie "Life Ahead", many viewers noted that, in the first place, they were attracted by the star cast. Such a number of favorite actors per square meter of film interested even those who are skeptical of domestic comedies.
The director managed to shoot a very sincere picture in which many recognized themselves: how they graduated from high school in the 90s in the new democratic Russia, in which everything was unsteady and incomprehensible; listened to the group "Demo" and "Ivanushki". The audience experienced and felt about the same as the characters in this film.
The beauty Lucy performed by Svetlana Khodchenkova, who became successful not only in Russia but also abroad, comes to the fore. Gene (played by Alexander Pal) had been in love with her since school, now he is trying to tell her all those words that he did not dare to utter either in school years or for a long time after. The fate of classmates turned out differently: someone became a gangster, and the most timid went to gynecologists. They are all 34 years old. When they were schoolchildren, it seemed to them that at this age most of their lives would be lived. But now they are sure that their whole life is ahead, everything is just beginning. Judging by the reviews, the film "Life Ahead" conquered many with this optimism.
Negative reviews
There were also those who had negative impressions from watching the film "Life Ahead." Reviews, ratings are given in this article. On the site "Kinopoisk" the tape received a rating of 6.2.
Many did not like the fact that there are a lot of controversial moments in the film. For example, the family is not being put into anything, yesterday's classmates who today have got families, practically without hesitation are ready to cheat on their loved ones.
After watching the picture "Life Ahead", viewers in reviews complained that they saw a real bacchanal on the screen, which, in their opinion, has nothing to do with real life. Unresolved school problems for many are no reason to worry, after 15 years.