Wednesday 18 June 2008

Irony of fate, or enjoy your bath!

The above is possibly the best film title I have ever heard... I have been wallowing in the strange atmosphere of Soviet era film songs - kitsch melancholia is a strange phenomenon - the lyrics to the second last song in this selection from the above film are quite quite beautiful in their bizarrely lost in translation way... and there's grey and snow and tower blocks, but somehow I get the impression the film could suddenly become a comedy... It's a juxtaposition I love in the Russian psyche sometimes...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The...craziest film of all time. We hate it as well as we love it. We watch it EVERY New year and television broadcasts it even in summers...