The film "Orleans": reviews of the audience

One of the most shocking premieres in 2015 was the Russian band Orleans. Reviews about the film are so contradictory that it even intrigues. What did the director Andrey Proshkin show in his film , that it is so actively discussed by the public?

"Orleans" (film, 2015): reviews, creators, short story

"Orleans" - this, of course, the film is not for the broad masses, although it was shown in cinemas in Russia, Poland, France and Argentina. Kassu this creation of Andrei Proshkin collected unimportant: with a budget of 2.5 million dollars, only $ 304,000 was recovered.

The action of the tape takes place in the scenery of the county town - Orleans. The viewer does not fully understand what the years are on the screen: either Soviet, or the 90's, or modernity. But this is not important, because people at all times were the same, and in any century you can find unscrupulous sinners. That's the indigenous population of Orleans just drowning in vices until the city arrives no executer. Here it is he who begins to punish sinners according to the "eternal" law. Actually, this picture is taken in the phantasmagoric genre painting "Orleans".

The film received criticism from the critics mostly positive. They call the director Andrei Proshkin a worthy successor to the cause of his father - Alexander Proshkin, who once took pictures such as "Olga Sergeevna", "Dangerous Age", "Mikhailo Lomonosov" and "Doctor Zhivago" with Oleg Menshikov in the title role. Andrew is known only to a narrow circle of intellectual viewers who could see his next films: "Moth Games" with Oksana Akinshina, "Minnesota" with Sergei Gorobchenko and "Orda" with Maxim Sukhanov.

Who played the main roles in the surreal tragicomedy of Andrei Proshkin "Orleans"?

Elena Liadova as a dissolute hairdresser

"Orleans" - a film (2015), reviews of which in a positive spirit left the fans of the actress, Elena Liadova. In this tape she got a very colorful role: the licentious hairdresser Lidka with a terrible hairdo, numerous casual connections and unpaid bills for electricity.

According to the plot, Lidka slept almost with a half of the capable male population of the city. The Executor finds a sinner in the hospital, where she plans to do more than the first abortion. He says that Lidka exceeded all possible limits of immoral behavior, for which she will be punished with death.

Elena Liadova is a good actress, and hardly anyone will argue with this. But recently, she stubbornly stuck in the image of a walking woman: first there was a series of "Treason", then immediately on the screens came "Orleans". Soon, so Lyadova will become the main "debauchery" of Russian cinema. And so already on the forums to her surname add an extra letter.

But in fact, more recently, "The Brothers Karamazov" and the image of Grushenka, "Ashes" and the role of Rita, "Leviathan" and the image of Lily. It remains to be hoped that Liadov will no longer build his career in the spirit of "Orleans".

Victor Sukhorukov as the Executor

Victor Sukhorukov is an actor who has always occupied a special place in Russian cinema. It seems that the directors and not spoiled his main roles, however, appearing in the frame even for a couple of minutes, he managed to attract maximum attention to the viewer.

So, in which films on the screen shines Sukhorukov? In the tapes of "Brother" and "Brother-2" Alexei Balabanov, he plays the reckless brother Danila Bagrov. In the "Comedy of a strict regime" Victor got the role of a prisoner who participates in amateur performances and plays on prison scaffolding. In the series "Furtseva" the actor plays a brisk and sly Khrushchev. In 2014, the actor was offered the role of an executor in the tragicomedy "Orleans".

Reviews acting skills Sukhorukova always received the most enthusiastic. And this time it is difficult to imagine someone else in the ironic role of the punisher of all sinners. Viktor Sukhorukov really coped with his difficult task.

Other performers of roles

The tape "Orleans" (phantasmagoria of sin), which is the subject of heated debate, is itself a very ironic film. Some critics even try to compare this work with Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita", only in a more rigid interpretation.

In order to reflect the sinful life of the provincial town, the directors needed only twelve actors. Only four of them play the main roles: Elena Liadova, Viktor Sukhorukov, Vitaliy Khayev, who got the role of an unclean investigator, and Oleg Yagodin, who is good as a cruel and cynical surgeon.

Vitaliy Khayev plays a lot in films, but most often it's about television films such as "Orlova and Alexandrov," "How I became a Russian," "Temptation."

Oleg Yagodin - a bird also a low flight: starred in only six films, in "Orleans" for the first time received a major role.

Also in the frame were lit: Pavel Tabakov ("Star"), Julia Polynskaya ("The Maltese Cross") and Irina Te ("LJ").

"Orleans" (phantasmagoria): critical reviews

The film by Andrei Proshkin is contradictory. To it the label "on the fan" approaches more. Nevertheless, critics tend to positively evaluate the tape "Orleans".

Reviews and reviews written by journalists of periodicals say that the director managed to provoke catharsis and a sense of purification through the demonstration of disgusting scenes. Grateful odes sound to the entire cast and screenwriter Yuri Arabov.

What movie "Orleans" received negative reviews? Some critics did not appreciate the "thin" play of the director with the ugly and felt that this was not a phantasmagoria, but simply "chernukha", which is often confused with art-house in Russia.

Viewers' comments

Amazing agreement reigns between critics and viewers about the opinions about the tragicomedy "Orleans": the reviews about the film left by the usual audience, in many respects resonate with professional reviews. Someone sees in Proshkin a new Bulgakov, and someone thinks that the director simply does not have a taste and banal sense of aesthetics, since he "pulled" all this "dirt" on the screen. Epatage is, of course, good. But the sense of proportion is more welcome than ever.

It remains only to add that the IMDb site has a rating of 6.20 with a preponderance of the positive side. So, to look it definitely worth it.