Russian Movies

[guzelle.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all the suggestions about Russian singers and songs, many of them were great!

Another question is about Russian movies. What Russian movies would you recommend for the Russian language student who loves good films?

He liked Ironia sud'by and Obyknovennoe chudo. He was able to understand about third of the dialogs in Russian and the rest with the help of English and Russian subtitles.

Thanks!

Comments

[smartkitty-86.livejournal.com]

Возвращение is an art film, so the dialogue is minimal and relatively simple. Also, if your friend doesn't like art film, beware. It is the epitome of art. Beautiful, though.

[johngorentz.livejournal.com]

It's the first Russian film I watched, and I think it's the best one yet -- even better than any of Tarkovsky's or Ryazanov's.

I watch these films with subtitles. I'm pretty much a beginner at learning Russian, and have been so for a long time. But movies have provoked me to do a little more than just dabble in it.

Sometimes I can correctly anticipate what the actors are going to say from reading the subtitle; sometimes I can tell they're talking about things that are absolutely not in the subtitles.

One good thing from all of this is that my wife and I have found something we enjoy watching together, even though she's not trying to learn the language. It makes her a little more tolerant of the time I spend on such a frivolous activity.

One thing I'm curious about -- in the movie Depuis qu’Otar est parti, is the Russian spoken with a French accent? I have no ability to detect something like that. (That's one we watched recently. I gave it a 5 on Netflix.)

[spiritrc.livejournal.com]

What film is that: "Depuis qu’Otar est parti" ? Is that a Russian or French film?

[johngorentz.livejournal.com]

It's a French film, but the setting is mostly Georgia, and the languages spoken are French, Russian, and Georgian. The characters switch among the three languages quite easily, it seems. Except the elderly woman who plays the grandmother refused to learn any Georgian for the movie, so she speaks only Russian and French.

Here is Netflix: Since Otar Left (http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Since_Otar_Left/60037330?trkid=189530&strkid=1947431955_0_0)

I blogged about it here (http://www.reticulator.com/2007/09/05/depuis-quotar-est-parti/) and here (http://www.reticulator.com/2007/09/06/depuis-qu%e2%80%99otar-est-parti%e2%80%a62/) when watching it.