Tin in the Material World: Anime and Dakota vs. Oneginsky Stanza

Dakota Johnson continues to professionally seduce on-screen partners. The Dandadan anime has received not only a second season, but also a film version. Evgeny Telegin goes to the house of his deceased uncle and meets Tatiana and Olga. The action of the novel "Hello, Sadness" has been transferred to the present. Lost sneakers are looking for each other in a big city. Izvestia has studied the weekend's novelties and advises on what to go to the cinema this weekend.

The "Materialist"

Directed by Celine Song. Starring: Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, Pedro Pascal

High-quality American films from the independent studio A24 continue to be released in Russian cinemas. The new release is the second full—length film by Korean-born director Celine Song, who was nominated for an Oscar in the honorary Best Screenplay category for her debut "Past Lives", which thundered at the Berlinale.

If "Past Lives" was a personal story with a lot of Korean flavor, then "The Materialist" is a completely American movie. The main role was played by Dakota Johnson, the star of "Shades of Grey" and a sex symbol of the last decade. Read a recent interview with her in Izvestia about the movie "All her Exes."

Over the years, Johnson has developed a very comfortable role as a young, intelligent woman who has demons hiding inside, and if they are released, no one will find it a little. It's a bit of a Jane Doe type, and it's not surprising that Celine Song came up with a lot of witty dialogue lines for Dakota, which are oversaturated in this art romcom. The Johnson–Evans–Pascal love triangle is very well presented, although it doesn't look like it's going to get Oscar nominations. But this is quite enough for the audience's love. In the United States, where the film was released a week earlier than Russia, it easily grossed $12 million over the opening weekend, and the R rating did not prevent it at all.

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"Dandadan: The Evil Eye"

Directors: Abel Gongora, Fuga Yamashiro. Starring: Shion Wakayama, Natsuki Hanae, Mayumi Tanaka

The anime series Dandadan, based on the manga of the same name by Yukinobu Tatsu, was unexpectedly popular around the world last year and quickly gained an impressive fan base. Suffice it to say that the premiere of "Evil Eye" at Moscow's October this week was almost more crowded than the long-awaited "Ballerina" from the "John Wick universe." This is despite the fact that the plot of the series is supposedly not too original: schoolchildren are fighting with all sorts of evil spirits, which have become the embodiment of their fears and complexes.

"Dandadan: The Evil Eye" is not an independent full—length franchise. But it's not just the three premiere episodes of the second season. Another recap of the first season will be added to the film version, plus an interview with directors Fuga Yamashiro and Abel Gongora. Izvestia is planning to record its own interview with the creators of the series. It is noteworthy that the anime will be released in two versions — with dubbing and with subtitles and original sound. Not every big movie gets this honor today, but the distributors believe in Dandadan.

"Evgeny Telegin"

Director: Victor Tikhomirov. Starring: Evgeny Tkachuk, Yuri Galtsev, Tatiana Kolganova, Sergey Migitsko, Yuri Kuznetsov

The triumphant release of "The Prophet" has barely ended when a new hooligan project related to Pushkin comes out. Some people know Viktor Tikhomirov as a member of Mitkov, and others as a documentary filmmaker whose films about Sokurov, Herman, and other brilliant residents of St. Petersburg were once very successful.

So, Evgeny Telegin, a Leningrad idiot and a fan of Leningrad rock, goes to the village in the 80s: he inherited a house from his uncle. Sisters Tatiana and Olga live in the village, and Telegin makes friends with a young artist here. In short, nothing much has changed in the two hundred years since Pushkin's novel took effect, and the viewer will have to decide for himself whether hip-hop or Russian rock better match the spirit of the great poet.

"Eugene Telegin" has almost no advertising, to be honest, after its premiere at the Moscow International Film Festival more than a year ago, one might have thought that we would not hear about this film anymore. But he is there, he is on the big screen, and it is especially pleasant to watch Telegin's summer adventures right now.

"Hello, sadness"

Director: Durga Chiu-Bose. Starring: Chloe Sevigny, Clas Bang, Lily McInerney, Naila Arzun

Will this film replace the novel by Francoise Sagan, based on which it is directed? No, of course not. Yes, it's interesting to bring the action to the present, great attention is paid to the atmosphere, the actors are chosen very carefully. It is clear that Chloe Sevigny is responsible for the drama, an actress who went from the scandalous starlet from "Kids" and "Brown Rabbit" to the grandiose school of Lars von Trier, Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch and David Fincher, won a Golden Globe and today has become a symbol of big cinema.

And yet, behind the atmosphere, one can feel the psychological poverty of the characters, the insufficiency of their elaboration, the lack of details that made the novel so strong that it still remains in the bestsellers. You shouldn't judge the film too harshly, it's still a debut that also looks quite decent. And if you don't expect anything more from him than a good, high-quality story about the summer passions of two women of different ages (as well as their men), then you can get two hours of quiet pleasure at an evening session.

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"Crosses"

Directed by Rob Edwards and Christopher Jenkins. Starring Anthony Mackie, Chloe Bailey, Laurence Fishburne

One day, someone had to come up with the idea to make a story where all the characters would be... with shoes. Of course, there were such films, the first thing that comes to mind is Konstantin Fama's superhit "Shoes". But "Crosses" are something else entirely. A funny cartoon in the spirit of Toy Story, where the supervillain is a collector of rare sneakers. It is he who becomes the catalyst for the plot, and the main characters are just a pair of such expensive crosses, a brother and a sister. They have been separated, they must meet each other and along the way understand a lot about themselves and the world.

It can be said, and it will be true, that the only advantage of the film is actually this move: to make shoe items into characters and to beat the fact that these very shoes are sold in pairs. Where there is a couple, there is conflict, a relationship, a reason for a story. The authors came up with a lot of jokes about shoes, introduced the viewer to a relatively closed, exotic world of connoisseurs of expensive sneakers. That was the end of the fantasy, and structurally the cartoon repeats hundreds of other children's stories about how one character goes to save another. But the kids should like it.