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Illusions

2021 · 85 min

A quiet, emotionally raw chamber piece that unfolds like a therapy session, asking you to sit with unspoken marital tensions.

Directed by
Nikolay Gostyukhin
Genres
Drama
Starring
Kseniya Otinova, Alexey Karakulov, Dmitry Neskoromnyy
Overview
Two young couples come to a family therapist to speak out about the anxieties and feelings that have accumulated during their marriage through a metaphorical story about the life of two elderly married couples.

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Directed by
Nikolay Gostyukhin
Genres
Drama
Starring
Kseniya Otinova, Alexey Karakulov, Dmitry Neskoromnyy
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 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
Themes
  • love
  • memory
  • identity
  • isolation
  • betrayal
Places
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism6
Romance5
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Nikolay Gostyukhin
Written by
Nikolay Gostyukhin
Starring
Kseniya Otinova, Alexey Karakulov, Dmitry Neskoromnyy, Ekaterina Mudraya, Alexandr Smirnov
Music
Ivan Aksenov
Cinematography
Nikita Kamenskikh
Runtime
85 min
Country
Russia
Languages
Russian

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