Two Women (2014 film)
Two Women (Russian: Две женщины, Dve zhenshchiny) is a 2014 Russian drama film directed by Vera Glagoleva, starring Ralph Fiennes and Sylvie Testud. It is based on Ivan Turgenev's 1872 play A Month in the Country (originally written as Two Women in 1855). The film received mixed reviews from critics.
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| Directed by | Vera Glagoleva |
| Screenplay by | Svetlana Grudovich Olga Pogodina-Kuzmina |
| Based on | A Month in the Country 1872 play by Ivan Turgenev |
| Produced by | Natalya Ivanova |
| Starring | Anna Brenner-Vartanyan Ralph Fiennes Aleksandr Baluev |
| Cinematography | Gints Berzins |
| Edited by | Aleksandr Amirov |
| Music by | Sergei Banevich |
Production company | Horosho Production House |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Budget | € 2,860,000 |
Plot
At the heart of the play lies the love quadrangle. Natalya Petrovna, the wife of the rich landowner Arkady Sergeich Islaev, falls in love with Alexey Nikolayevich Belyaev - a student, teacher Kolya Islaeva.
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Rakitin - a friend of the family, has long loved Natalya Petrovna. Verochka - a pupil of Natalya Petrovna also falls in love with Kolya's teacher. Belyaev and Rakitin eventually leave the estate ...
Cast
- Anna Vartanyan-Astrakhantseva (ru) as Natalya Petrovna Islaeva
- Ralph Fiennes as Mikhail Aleksandrovich Rakitin
- Aleksandr Baluev as Arkady Sergeich Islaev
- Sylvie Testud as Elisavetta Bogdanovna
- Anna Levanova as Verochka
- Nikita Volkov as Alexey Nikolayevich Belyaev
- Larisa Malevannaya as Anna Semenovna Islaeva
- Bernd Moss as Schaaf
- Sergey Yushkevich as Ignaty Shpigelsky
- Vasiliy Mishchenko as Bolshentsov
- Anna Nahapetova as Katya
Reception
Two Women has an approval rating of 89% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 9 reviews, and an average rating of 6.00/10.[2] It also has a score of 54 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 4 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[3]
Clarence Tsui of The Hollywood Reporter wrote:
Fiennes' superficial turn (in more ways than one, as his lines ended up overdubbed by a Russian voice actor) is hampered more by circumstances than ability: rather than playing on the multiple possibilities underlining Turgenev's once-transgressive comedy of manners, actress-turned-filmmaker Vera Glagoleva's 21st century take is a po-faced, straitjacketed affair, as she (and her screenwriters Svetlana Grudovich and Olga Pogodina-Kuzima) play out the entangled relationships as excessively affected period drama. While certainly lushly mounted, Two Women is at best a piece of dated heritage cinema, and at worst cliche-ridden pomp.[4]
Awards and nominations
The film won the Best Feature Film award at the 3rd Hanoi International Film Festival.
References
- Blaney2014-08-05T11:08:00+01:00, Martin. "Depardieu's Viktor to premiere in Russia". Screen.
- "Two Women (Mesyats v derevne) (2014)" – via www.rottentomatoes.com.
- "Two Women". Metacritic.
- Tsui, Clarence (2014-09-18). "'Two Women' ('Dve Zhenshchiny'): Vladivostok Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2016-06-28.