You I Love (2004)

On their first anniversary, Vera comes home to discover her boyfriend Tim in bed with another man.

Directors:

Olga Stolpovskaja, Dmitriy Troitskiy

Writers:

Olga Stolpovskaja, Alisa Tanskaya

Stars:

Damir Badmaev, Lyubov Tolkalina, Evgeniy Koryakovskiy

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Damir Badmaev	...	Uloomji
Lyubov Tolkalina	...	Vera Kirillova
Evgeniy Koryakovskiy	...	Timofei Pechorin
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Nina Agapova	...	Elderly Neighbor
Alexander Dulerayn	...	Deputat (as Aleksandr Dulerayn)
Irina Grineva	...	Make-Up Girl
Anatoly Mankhadykov	...	Uloomji's Father
Valentina Mankhadykova	...	Uloomji's Mother
Yuriy Sherstnyov	...	Watchman at the Zoo
Victor Shevidov	...	Uncle Vanya
Alisa Tanskaya	...	Woman, discussing Vera
Mikhail Tarabukin	...	Lyolik
Emanuel Michael Vaganda	...	John
Aleksandr Vartanov	...	Voice of a radio DJ

Storyline

Vera and Tim are successful young professionals living fast-paced lives in ultra-modern Moscow. Their lives crackle with the capitalist energy of excess, anxiety, consumption, and stress- and they are in love. Everything changes one night when Tim accidentally drives his car into Uloomji, a young Kalmyk day worker. (The Kalmyks are a semi-nomadic people of Mongolian decent.) The two men begin a torrid affair that involves howling and knocking over a lot of furniture. Tim is attracted to Uloomji's exotic demeanor and liberated by his impulsiveness and lack of inhibition. To Uloomji, Tim embodies a kind of class and refinement he sees only in magazines. Vera struggles to comprehend their bond and her boyfriend's erratic behavior. She is dragged reluctantly into a bizarre love triangle. Before long, all three lives unravel, exemplified by a visit to a Buddhist healer, a three-way in the bathroom of a gay bar, a faked death and a kidnapping.

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Plot Keywords:

claim in title | electroshock torture | roughhousing | buddhist | car | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Details

Official Sites:

Picture This! Entertainment [United States]

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian English Kalmyk-Oirat

Release Date:

23 February 2005 (France)

Also Known As:

You I Love

Filming Locations:

Moscow Zoo, Moscow, Russia

Box Office

Gross USA:

$60,815, 29 July 2005

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Its quite Russian

This movie has a real Russian feeling in it. The way Russians behave towards each other, the way they treat people and their warmth is something that is not well known for people who has never been there. Definitely the movie is stylized, but if it reminds anything that would be Nine and a Half Weeks. The previous post misses the "invasion" of the "peasant" into the lives of sophisticated urbanites as an attempt to show "how multiracial" Russia has become. It reminds me Bunuel, instead. In L'Age D'or, a movie from the 1920's, there is a scene in which a bunch a peasants pass through an opulent party where the burgeosie is feasting, in a surreal way. It's as like the peasants breath life in that artificial environment. Life, love is all there is.