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Pointe Shoes for Buns

2016 · 1 season

A quiet, bittersweet character study that finds wry humor and ache in a woman's small daily disappointments.

Genres
Drama
Overview
A few years ago, Natasha was a ballerina. Now she weighs more than 90 kg, and her husband calls her " Bun "- both because of the excess weight, and because of the addiction to sweets "from sergeicha". When she eats her favorite bun, she will complain to the "Sergeyich" drawn on the package about a boring job, the absence of children, and a non-working husband. And Sergeich always understands it.
How it feels
Melancholic, warm, cynical and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About
Identity, loneliness, family, grief
Content
Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
Note
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour4
Realism8
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

Cast

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Angelina Nikonova
Written by
Ekaterina Korchemkina
Starring
Darya Kalmikova, Anver Yagudin, Lika Rulla, Olga Dykhovichnaya, Olesya Zheleznyak, Sergey Frolov, Mikhail Bogdasarov, Igor Larin
Cinematography
Vitaliy Konevzov
Length
1 seasons, 4 episodes, 182 min each
Network
TV Centre
Country
Russia
Languages
Russian

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