Movie
To See Paris and Die
1992 · 120 min
A slow, suffocating study of a mother's ruthless sacrifice, watching ambition curdle into paranoia and quiet betrayal.
- Directed by
- Aleksandr Proshkin
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Dmitriy Malikov, Tatyana Vasileva, Vladimir Steklov
- Overview
- In Russia in the late 1960s, Elena will do anything to see that her son Yuri succeeds as a pianist: she longs for him to win a competition that will send him to Paris. To ensure his success, she denies her love for an iconoclastic painter for whom she models, prostitutes herself to a Party figure, encourages her son to break with his true love because the girl is a Jew, and, in general, behaves in paranoid ways, believing, for example, that a new lodger, Evgeny, is a KGB spy. She also has her own family secrets, which she will go to any length to keep her son from learning.
- How it feels
- Dark, melancholic, tense and cynical. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Ambition, family, betrayal, obsession
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Aleksandr Proshkin
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Dmitriy Malikov, Tatyana Vasileva, Vladimir Steklov
