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Lisa

2018 · 17 min

A slow, claustrophobic descent into a writer's fraying mind, where creative failure curdles into an eerie, hallucinatory presence.

Directed by: Anastasiya Kopylova
Genres: Drama
Starring: Aleksandr Nosik, Marina Kaletskaya, Alexandr Bildanov

Overview: USSR 1960s. The writer lives in a studio apartment with his beloved Margot. The writer is writing a novel and wants recognition. In his imagination, he creates a family of characters. Hoping for success, the writer takes several chapters of the novel to different publishers, but gets rejections everywhere. Failures give rise to doubts and fears in the creator, which mystically are embodied in the image of a lady in a black dress. Lady is negative energy. One day, the writer decides to burn the manuscripts of the novel. At this moment, in the form of a hallucination, a Lady appears in front of him.

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Directed by: Anastasiya Kopylova
Genres: Drama
Starring: Aleksandr Nosik, Marina Kaletskaya, Alexandr Bildanov

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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
isolation
madness
art
identity
Places: home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	4
Humour	1
Realism	6
Romance	2
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Anastasiya Kopylova
Written by: Anastasiya Kopylova
Starring: Aleksandr Nosik, Marina Kaletskaya, Alexandr Bildanov, Anastasiya Kopylova, Galina Nikitina
Runtime: 17 min
Country: Russia
Languages: Russian

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