Юрий Грымов: Я сам себе судья!

The press center of the Rossiya Segodnya news agency hosted a preview screening of Yury Grymov's film "Three Sisters"

The picture is released only on October 19, it will be shown in about 100 cinemas Luxor, in digital format it will be released on pay TV channels, it will also be seen by viewers of Kazakhstan and Belarus.

Grymov does not make movies for everyone, and this has long been clear. There is an audience that goes to the theater to laugh and distract, there are those who go to cry, that the soul unfolded, someone comes for action, and there is Grymov's audience. "Three Sisters" - a movie for thinking, intelligent, subtle viewers. Even "Luxor" did not immediately agreed to take the movie to hire.

The film distributor's executive director, Sergei Sorochkin, noted:

"The film is primarily for adult audiences, so it will be presented in those cinemas where such audiences go. "Luxor" loves complex movies, they showed, for example, "Faust" and "Hard to be God", but "Three Sisters" should be seen by everyone: there is something to think hard about each of us"

Grymov's three sisters, of course, are not abstract, but the very same Chekhov sisters, only in Yuri's case they are over 60. Besides, the film is in black and white, and there is its own charm - the further you watch it, the clearer you see the film in color, but each in his own, and only at the end you realize that the picture was all the time black and white, but the feeling of color and colors remained. And Chekhov's autumn in the first minutes of the movie only benefited from that. I don't know if Grymov wanted to achieve such an effect, perhaps by aging the characters he decided to "age" the film as well. But the emotions, experiences and characters of the heroes were so strong in the movie that there was no sense of monochrome left at all.

Brilliant cast: Igor Yasulovich, Alexander Baluev, Anna Kamenkova, Lyudmila Polyakova, Irina Mazurkevich, Alexander Pashutin, Maxim Sukhanov, Vladimir Nosik, Igor Yatsko... If you take into account that the entire crew worked for free, you realize that each of them had a sense of involvement in the creation of something important and necessary now. The budget of the picture actually had no. According to the director, they collected 1 million rubles with the help of crowdfunding, financial support was also provided by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, allocating 25% of the amount requested by Grymov.

Yuri Grymov: "Old age is getting younger today."

What catches your eye first? Contrasts. The words "nonsense" and "velyela" coexist here with "to buy in a shop", books and a cute dovecote coexist with modern gadgets and computer games, attention and compassion for the neighbor live together with selfies against the background of a fire and disregard for the elderly, longing for the old Soviet Moscow, hotels "Intourist" and "Moscow" seem strange against the background of dislike for the USSR. Different generations still do not understand each other in the same way, while the younger generation is unpleasant to look at, ashamed of them and wanting to blush throughout the movie. Rude, heartless, shallow and selfish - that's how it looks in Grymov's work.

The young generation was "responsible" for the young generation, not yet known to the Russian cinematography, but Natalie Jura played her role quite convincingly. The young actress was really able to convey what the director wanted. Her work in the picture is interesting to watch - playing Chekhov's Natasha, she exposes all the shortcomings of the current generation. And for this reason, among others, the movie should be watched by young people - a good lesson and a look at themselves from the outside. The more fun it was to watch the actress at the press conference following the screening of the movie. She entered the hall when all members of the film crew have already taken their seats in the chairs on the stage, and began to shoot the whole action on a smartphone - her colleagues, the hall, the screen. This moment made many smirk - in the movie there is an episode where her character takes selfies against the backdrop of a fire.

But the smartphone in the hands of the actress was not perceived as disrespect to the audience, and became another confirmation that this is how we live today. Whether it is good or bad, time will tell.

Yuri Grymov: "I wanted to remove pseglanets from the school curriculum, so "aged" in my movie all the sisters."

Yuri Grymov has made a movie. It is a movie about the eternal. About the search for the meaning of life: for some it is in love, for some in children, for some it is in work or even in faith. It is a movie about the relevance of people over 60, about the fact that you should live in happiness every day and find this happiness in small things, and most importantly, about the fact that it is never too late to change your life for the better. And although the age limit for the movie is "Three Sisters" 16+it's not vulgar, it's not vulgar, it's clever and heartfelt.

As Anna Kamenkova said on Meet the Press:

"When a girl at 25 lives with a man she doesn't love and says that her life has failed - that's one thing. But when you hear the phrase failed life at 60, it's heartbreaking. It has a poignancy and a message to all of us".

And it is impossible not to agree with her. Watch "Three Sisters" interpreted by Yuri Grymov and draw your own conclusions.