Ispoved neznakomtsu (1995) User Reviews

One of my favorite movies

[Ponchie Da Blob · 10/10 · 31 December 2000]

I happened to be watching the International Channel the other night (gotta love it!) and this movie came on. At first I didn't think I'd like it because it was set in the early 1900s and it didn't seem too interesting, but I kept watching for some reason. I'm really glad I did because this movie was great. Here's the I-channel's summary of it:

St Petersburg, 1907. The young and carefree Natalia should be perfectly happy. She has a handsome little boy, a rich husband who allows her to live as she chooses and lovers who desire her. Yet, a chance encounter with a stranger forever alters her peaceful life. Echoing Natalia's secret desire for independence, her husband is murdered that very same night.

I don't want to give too much away, but this movie was beautifully written and I would recommend it to anyone.

About Russian soul

[Vincentiu · 21 January 2007]

A important film not only for beauty, script or acting but for the delicate art to transmit the original form of Russian soul. The details like pieces of a fascinating mosaic of expectation, illusions and regrets. The stranger like butcher of chimeric life in which every day makes a delicate and secret sense for ordinary existence.

Flavor from Chekhov atmosphere, shadows from Nina Berberova's art, parts of Lyudmila Ulietskaya's vision, memories from Dostoevsky deep tensioned silence, drops Mikhail Bulgakov are elements to recreate a world very soft, fragile and suffocated by ambiguous passion.

Not the Slavic air is important, not the words with Anna Karenina's similar sound, but the discover of a magnificent world grace of superb Sandrine Bonnair interpretation.

"Ispoved neznakomtsu" is a beautiful sad story but, more important is exploration of sensitivity of a strange, charming world.

beautiful

[Kirpianuscus · 20 September 2015]

for acting. and for the story. for atmosphere . and for Sandrine Bonnaire. a strange lady in Russia. the perfect life. and the moments who transforms happiness in cruel discover of an empty life. a film who could not impress. because it has not the gift of great Soviet films or the story to be more than a delicate sketch. but it has the chance to preserve the respiration of a society. it is an inspired embroidery of images from Russian literature. and the themes of great novels are present in each scene. a film who seems be a drawing in sand. fragile, delicate, seductive, not great but useful for remember. portrait of a lost world. not the best. but interesting for not ignore it.