Your support yesterday worked a miracle — I wrote a review of the film "Buratino", released on January 1! Let's evaluate together, share your impressions in the chat. I'll say right away: my review is of a gray_neutral color.

"Buratino" positions itself as a fairy tale "uniting generations." Not an easy task: parents entering the hall, who have absorbed all the morality and philosophy of Leonid Nechaev's Soviet film, are not sure that the story of the son of good Papa Carlo can be told better. But the important thing is that Igor Voloshin does not even try to be better — he works for a new audience, only occasionally waltzing towards fans of Soviet classics.

What do we have in the plot basis: thanks to good cockroach friends (Nikolai Drozdov, Anton Shastun, Vanya Dmitrienko), the poor man Carlo (Alexander Yatsenko) gets the opportunity to become the father of a very unusual boy. Then — everything as we know: buying an expensive ABC book, trying to enroll in school, and Buratino's (Vita Kornienko) desire to see the mysterious theater — commedia dell'arte.

Here the director reveals the secret of the film's main leitmotif: this is not the adventure of artistic Buratino, not a story about the Golden Key; it is a journey to oneself, recognition of one's "I" and affirmation in the world to which one belongs. To put it mildly, the theme is not at all childish — and obviously, the kids did not understand it and will not fully understand it; it is multi-layered, hidden in the dialogues and silences of the characters, intended still for adults accompanying children to the cinemas.

Continuation read on the website of the film magazine "After Credits" ✍️

#reviews@culturalleys