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Razzhimaya Kulaki (2021)

Drama | 97 minutes
3,00 34 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 97 minuten

Alternative titles: Unclenching the Fists / Разжимая кулаки

Country: Russia

Directed by: Kira Kovalenko

Stars: Milana Aguzarova, Alik Karaev and Soslan Khugaev

IMDb score: 6,6 (1.994)

Releasedate: 25 September 2021

Razzhimaya Kulaki plot

Zaur moves with his children Ada, Akim and Dakko to Mizur, Russia. Education is one of discipline. While the eldest, Akim, has a job in a city, his younger brother Dakko doesn't yet know what he wants with his life. Ada, on the other hand, is fully prepared to escape, but has to admit that starting a new life away from her father is no mean feat. Akim's return exposes all their traumas.

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mrklm

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In a desolate concrete village in North Ossetia, we discover that Ada [Milana Aguzarova] is “damaged” Kovalenko desperately tries to arouse sympathy or pity for her. Her father doesn't have long to live and her brother Dakko [Khetag Bibilov] loses himself in drinking and other irresponsible stuff. Older brother Akim [Soslan Khugaev] to the proverbial rescue. There is also a not too bright guy [Arsen Khetagurov] who wants to do all sorts of things with Ada, but there is hardly any rope to tie a story full of inscrutable and unsympathetic characters. Winner of the 'Un Certain Regard AWard' at the Cannes Film Festival, but yes. That has been a patent of ignorance for quite some time, unfortunately.

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De filosoof

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The film relies on its mystery: we see a girl in an unclear emotional state, then a boy who flirts with her, then another boy who flies around her neck, etc., where it slowly becomes clear what the relationships between the people are and even more slowly it becomes clear what is wrong in the girl's family. But in the end little happens and what is wrong turns out to be what soon became clear: the girl's father does not allow her the freedom to date because he (and also her young brother) does not want to lose her (there is is also a mild suggestion of incest). The father's cramp at the end with which he can't let go of her is very metaphorical and what follows is vague in its ambiguity. The film is mainly psychological with dark spaces that match that melancholy, but the lack of surprise or depth in the plot development also makes the film somewhat unsatisfying.

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Fisico

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I'm glad I'm apparently not the only one who can't make head nor tail of this story. Not that it's complex, but that it's blurry and very vague. We are in the North Ossetian region, which is clear with the flags. Beslan and his tragedy is a fact. The events there still cast a shadow over the family.

The father is a quiet dominant man, not so much verbally, but in his controllability. The bond with the girl's brothers is close, very close at times. There is no immediate talk of incest, but I did get confused with all those attachments. The girl is clearly struggling with trauma, but to say that this is being addressed is also not true. Same with the father who just can't let go. It's not really about love, it's about fear of abandonment all the more I think.

Pretty superficial and mysterious all. A disappointment in that regard. Much more can be achieved here. Furthermore, authentic, too perhaps, desolate environment. Great acting too. Typical arthouse, but I missed the connection with the story.

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