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You I Love

Original title: Ya lyublyu tebya
  • 20042004
  • 1h 23m
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6.1/10
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Ya lyublyu tebya (2004)
  • Comedy
  • Romance
On their first anniversary, Vera comes home to discover her boyfriend Tim in bed with another man.On their first anniversary, Vera comes home to discover her boyfriend Tim in bed with another man.On their first anniversary, Vera comes home to discover her boyfriend Tim in bed with another man.
IMDb RATING
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933
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  • Directors
    • Olga Stolpovskaja
    • Dmitriy Troitskiy
  • Writers
    • Olga Stolpovskaja
    • Alisa Tanskaya
    • Dmitriy Troitskiy
  • Stars
    • Damir Badmaev
    • Lyubov Tolkalina
    • Evgeniy Koryakovskiy
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  • Directors
    • Olga Stolpovskaja
    • Dmitriy Troitskiy
  • Writers
    • Olga Stolpovskaja
    • Alisa Tanskaya
    • Dmitriy Troitskiy
  • Stars
    • Damir Badmaev
    • Lyubov Tolkalina
    • Evgeniy Koryakovskiy
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    • 12User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
    • 54Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination

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    Damir Badmaev
    • Uloomjias Uloomji
    Lyubov Tolkalina
    • Vera Kirillovaas Vera Kirillova
    Evgeniy Koryakovskiy
    Evgeniy Koryakovskiy
    • Timofei Pechorinas Timofei Pechorin
    Nina Agapova
    Nina Agapova
    • Elderly Neighboras Elderly Neighbor
    Aleksandr Dulerayn
    • Deputatas Deputat
    Irina Grineva
    • Make-Up Girlas Make-Up Girl
    Anatoly Mankhadykov
    • Uloomji's Fatheras Uloomji's Father
    Valentina Mankhadykova
    • Uloomji's Motheras Uloomji's Mother
    Oleg Ratkov
    • Reklamnyy agentas Reklamnyy agent
    Yuriy Sherstnyov
    Yuriy Sherstnyov
    • Watchman at the Zooas Watchman at the Zoo
    Victor Shevidov
    • Uncle Vanyaas Uncle Vanya
    Alisa Tanskaya
    • Woman, discussing Veraas Woman, discussing Vera
    Mikhail Tarabukin
    Mikhail Tarabukin
    • Lyolikas Lyolik
    Emanuel Michael Vaganda
    • Johnas John
    Aleksandr Vartanov
    • Voice of a radio DJas Voice of a radio DJ
    • Directors
      • Olga Stolpovskaja
      • Dmitriy Troitskiy
    • Writers
      • Olga Stolpovskaja
      • Alisa Tanskaya
      • Dmitriy Troitskiy
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    Storyline

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    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. —Sujit R. Varma
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    8/10
    Sex in (the city) Moscow
    This film reminds us of "Sex and the City", but with the city being Russia's capital.

    Showing us a very stylized Moscow (as "SEX" does with New York), the movie spotlights the private lives of 3 main characters in a modern take of now "liberal" Russia. Two of them have glamorous lives and careers, affording us viewers locations (luxury apartments, offices, bars, and so on) to match; a global, thoroughly Westernized side of Moscow we rarely see on film.

    The third character is from the Asian part of Russia, throwing in some gritty reminders about how others, especially racial minorities, live in Russia. This character's family, predictably, is more conservative and closed minded than the other more "European" characters. This character and his family also remind the audience of Russia's multi cultural nature.

    Minor characters inter related to the main three complete the mosaic of modern day Moscow the film paints. Each is a composite of stereotypes -a foreign multi national executive, two senators (the three living similar hedonistic lifestyles), young people with aspiring consumer driven dreams; all but the "Asian Russians" quite capitalistic.

    While not revealing any particularly novelty, the film is interesting to Westerners as a glossy display of Moscow life, with the stereotypes we read about in the press, and hear about in World News, brought to life on screen.

    The basic plot however confirms (at least to me) that Moscow is not yet that up to date and permissive. The main relationship formed is a compromise with the conservative reality of Russian morals, and I think not very realistic in any society.

    One may infer from this film that progressive trendy Muscovites can accept bisexuality, but not real homosexuality. This film makes it clear that it's OK to be gay if you're really bisexual. At least, that's a start for this conservative society. But it is not what (I believe) most of the film's target audiences are expecting to see. In the end, the message the film sends is a cop out.
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    • Release date
      • February 23, 2005 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • Russia
    • Official site
      • Picture This! Entertainment (United States)
    • Languages
      • Russian
      • English
      • Kalmyk-Oirat
    • Also known as
      • You I Love (Ya lyublyu tebya)
    • Filming locations
      • Moscow Zoo, Moscow, Russia
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $60,815
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $5,785
      • Nov 21, 2004
    • Gross worldwide
      • $60,815
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 23 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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