Review of NO-ONE

NO-ONE (2018)
10/10
An intricate perspective at the times of change
17 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This film is an intricate view at one of the most significant political and social shifts in history through the prism of human relationships.

The shift of a paradigm of a whole cultural layer, results in a distortion of human behavior and its expression in interactions and relationships.

An intelligence general turns to a mind boggling form of art, in his understanding.

A silver-spoon film director attempting to quench his significance through surreptitious mischief

A prominent actress seeking for her expression through unreasonable adultery

And all this occurring away from the stage of events of the political coup attempt of 1991.

And although we don't see what is happening on the streets of Moscow, through the amazing and expressive performance, we feel the tension and the absurdity of the events with a flavor of inevitability of change.

Human interactions portrays the imminence of collapse of the "old ways" with an experience of absolute uncertainty and, even, desperation towards the future. Yet there is an aroma of faith, that even this shall pass...
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