20 January 2010. Dozhd' idyot--rain is falling, all throught the night, and into a dark morning. Ruthless handful of swimmers in their shared oblivion. Sharp drops on surface of pool. Dozhd' idyot...
Or Pasternak, and the snow. As sung by Sergei Nikitin, with his Russian seven-string guitar, a voice at once gentle and sure. Becomes a film--a tale of two cities, Soviet-style, for the new year--and a nest of contradictions (as every nest needs must be). The inadvertant apartment, a singer, unseen. A beautiful Polish girl playing her Russian counterpart, and the mother--in a telling moment of wry understanding--whose quiet presence informs all. A poem, a song, ongoing, and a story of love that might never have been...
Two birds in the snow...
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(The film is Ironiya Sud'by--The Irony of Fate)
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