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12/30/06
4 (2006)
81 %
Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 13 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 6.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 6 mins
Synopsis: Three strangers meet in a late night Moscow bar and spin incredible stories about themselves- all of which turn out to be lies. Marina, a prostitute, claims to be an advertising executive. Volodya, a piano tuner, talks about his work on a top secret Russian project in cloning or doubling. Oleg,... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Marina Vovchenko, Irina Vovchenko, Svetlana Vovchenko, Sergey Shnurov, Yuri Laguta
Director: Ilya Khrjanovsky
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The performances are so good and the images so darkly expressive that Khrzhanovsky's experiment with cinematic deconstructionism nearly works.
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This seriously weird pic has a few flat stretches, but its bawdy comedy, bravura sound design and uncanny atmosphere will turn on auds with a taste for deeply oddball fare and baffle others.
08/04/06
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There's much in the movie that won't translate to audiences this side of the Volga, but there's also a humor and a fierce filmmaking intelligence that demand attention.
08/04/06
A creepy, Lynchian dream-walk into the purgatory of human mass production
06/13/06
4 could be a gross-out phantasmagoria to test your cinematic stamina, or it could be a political commentary, though Khrjanovsky insists not.
05/26/06
The picture finally bogs down in a seemingly endless spectacle of grossness and ghoulishness.
05/10/06
It's not always clear exactly what's happening in this dark tale, full of barking dogs and slabs of meat. But you won't be able to take your eyes from the screen; nor will you quickly forget this fiercely original eye-popper.
04/07/06
The terminally bleak meets the hypnotically beautiful in the Russian cryptogram 4, directed by the newcomer Ilya Khrzhanovsky.
04/06/06
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In spite of a handful of striking images%u2014a shot of dogs being scared off by pile-drivers, a spooky aquarium-cleaning, a drunken party in which withered old ladies lift their shirts and slap each others' breasts%u20144 never resolves into anything spe
04/06/06
...suggestively arresting in strange ways that will attract cinephiles and fuel unanswerable discussion.
04/05/06
Exhilarating, infuriating, mesmerizing, baffling, and out-and-out crazy, 4 certainly doesn't lack for ambition and outrageousness.
04/04/06
Although Khrzhanovsky has several tricks up his sleeve, 4's most provocative quality is its ironic surplus of beauty.
04/04/06
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