Vodka Lemon (2003)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.5/10   

Director:

Hiner Saleem

Escritores:

Lei Dinety (writer) and
Pauline Gouzenne (adaptation) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

21 noviembre 2003 (Italy)

Género:

Comedia | Drama

Plot:

In a remote, isolated village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons...

Plot Keywords:

Armenia | Prostitution | Mountain | Horse | Kurdish

Premios:

6 wins & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Beautifully Filmed

Reparto

Romen Avinian	...	Hamo
Lala Sarkissian	...	Nina
Ivan Franek	...	Dilovan
Ruzan Mesropyan	...	Zine (as Rouzanna-Vite Mesropian)
Zahal Karielachvili	...	Giano
Astrik Avaguian	...	Avin
Armen Marutyan	...	Romik (as Armen Marouthian)
Armen Sarkissian	...	Conducteur autobus
Hasmik Alexanian	...	Femme acheteuse armoire
Roudik Revondyan	...	Homme Volga
Hasmik Ter-Karapetian	...	Femme de Romik
Svetlana Babelyan	...	Tali
Levon Meloyan	...	Patron Nina
Vahagn-Poncho Simonian	...	Robert (as Vahagn Poncho Simonian)
Gaguik Sarkissian	...	Homme acheteur armoire

Duración:

Canada:84 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | USA:90 min

País:

France | Italy | Switzerland | Armenia

Idioma:

Armenian | Kurdish | Ruso | Francés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby SR | Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Sweden:7 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG | Australia:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Armenia

Compañía:

Dulciné Films

Errores:

Personal o Equipo Visible: In the last scene, when Hamo and Nina play the piano and move far away from the camera. You can see the shadow of someone pulling them behind the piano.

Beautifully Filmed

Other comments have detailed some of the plot elements of this beautiful film, but haven't really mentioned the perfect visual balances throughout this film that also help keep it from sliding into depression or wallowing or sentimentality. For example, as the main character hauls his possessions to sell at the market one by one, the visual incongruity of the huge items he's hauling on his own down a stretch of endless highway is so quirky and absurd that the subtle smart humor offsets any chance we'd let pity sully the scene.

There are scenes in this film so gorgeous that I think of them with crystal clarity, even months later.

Don't miss this film if you have the chance to see it.