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Kiss Me Passionately

2006 · 27 min

A quiet, observational portrait of ordinary women finding dignity and fleeting hope through song amid gray provincial life.

Directed by
Alina Rudnitskaya
Genres
Documentary
Overview
At the center of the story is an amateur female choir of the city of Tikhvin. Each of her participants is an ordinary woman who in everyday life is completely unrelated to the scene. One of them is a seller in a store, someone is engaged in garbage collection, and someone does work as a loader to provide shelter and food. But all of them are united by a love of music and a hope for a brighter future. The arrival of the Italian delegation in the city becomes a real glimpse among the gray everyday life of our heroines, and their dreams at that moment seem even more illusory.

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Directed by
Alina Rudnitskaya
Genres
Documentary
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • work
  • music
  • class
  • isolation
  • healing
Places
  • small town
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
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Written by
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Cinematography
Sergey Maksimov
Runtime
27 min
Country
Russia
Languages
Russian

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