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Fresh:9
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Average Rating:5.9/10
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: The film events take place in Moscow in the 1970-s. The plot is based on the classical love triangle: two youths and a girl. They are students of the same institute of higher education, live in a... [More]
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Shakhnazarov, who began his film career in the Soviet era and was about the age of his protagonists in '73, brings an authenticity to the material, as well as a certain wistfulness in his excellent re-creation of Brezhnev-era Moscow.
A nicely turned film about the crushing inevitability of change.
Top CriticIn the gray old days of Brezhnev and detente, Russian college students shimmy to "Sugar, Sugar" and shell out for black-market Levis, unaware that these are the best days of their lives
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Top CriticEvocative period details and persuasive performances lend a poignant sadness to Karen Shakhnazarov's familiar, but well-told, coming-of-age tale.
[Director] Shakhnazarov came of age during the Soviet Union's Communist days and brings firsthand experience to the Brezhnev-era The Vanished Empire.
Bland look at rebellious teens who experience the last days of the Soviet empire.
In The Vanished Empire, Mr. Shakhnazarov, a prolific and under-recognized Russian filmmaker with a surrealist touch, views the collapse of the Soviet Union as an inevitable conflation of the younger generation’s natural impulse to reject the past.
Top CriticA Russian film about a self-absorbed youth who is driven by an insatiable yearning to have whatever he wants.
The moralistic finale feels tacked on to the vivid celebration of Commie teen lust.
The dead-end on-again, off-again courtship between Sergey and Lyuda bores, and their standard adolescent travails take up most of the screen time.
Unsentimental, almost antiheroic snapshot of a disaffected lost generation never billboards its end-of-a-civilization vibe, though that vibe does color its bittersweet nostalgia over youth wasted on the young.
Top CriticThe lost-world aura of the film's clumsy youths provides an inexorable dig into Brezhnev-era diffidence.
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