Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by tinear (A) on February 11, 2010 at 21:34:11

anti-competitive, and almost completely reclusive 19th century Russian man, content to loll away his days in Leningrad sleeping and stuffing himself with only his long-suffering major domo to keep him company.
Until, that is, his boyhood friend, Stoltz, appears. His type-A personality, coupled with his Alpha male good looks and aggressive business smarts eventually overwhelm Oblomov's passivity. With his new found outlook, our hero soon finds a love interest and he embarks on what must rank as the most naive approach to courtship ever filmed.
The film shows the glories of "old" Russia not unlike how Barry Lyndon did those of England. The cinematography is beautiful, the love interest is charming, and those that wish to mull over the philosophical will find no shortage of interesting points to consider. What a pleasure to see the two principal males portrayed by intelligent actors, too!
(I swear Vic I didn't know before I saw it that it was directed by Nikita Mikhalkov; in spite of that, I tremendously enjoyed it; it may be too early to so dub it but I'd say it's a classic film).