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

The unconventional love is everywhere, in an absurd way

This is a film that easily can be given a long existentialistic interpretation a la Sartre or some similar French philosopher. The depraved and superficial meet the natural and authentic, and in some weird theatrical way the events lead to an unconventional relation. I do not think this film should be viewed as a realistic drama. It is slightly absurd, and even the "bad characters" of the film are more absurd than nasty.

I liked the film for its crazy and indirect and dreamlike approach to unconventional love and relations. No preaching, not that much reality, and a healthy portion of strangeness. If there is a message, then I believe that is best described as "the path to joyful unconventional life is everywhere, just look!"