Andrei KONCHALOVSKY Андрей КОНЧАЛОВСКИЙ Andreï KONTCHALOVSKI   Russia / France, 2007, 117 mn  Colour, fiction

Gloss / Gloss : The Director's Cut ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Глянец    Gloss / Papier glacé  Glyanets

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Plot synopsis

Dramatic comedy.
The simple seamstress Galia arrives in Moscow from the Rostov province. She dreams of a career as a supermodel, but she is not destined to become a model. Indeed, she is told so right away, and reaches this conclusion herself by the end of film, having worked as seamstress with a well-known fashion designer, as assistant to the owner of an elite model agency engaged in the selection of brides for rich people ñ where she learns how much the rich pay for the happy life in their villas. The film is based on real events.
Source : www.kinotavr.ru

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Andrei Konchalovskii : Gloss (Glianets, 2007), Olga MESROPOVA, kinokultura.com, 2008

Andrei Konchalovskii : Gloss (Glianets; 2007), Sasha RAZOR, kinokultura.com, 2008

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Festival Andrey Konchalovsky, Moscow (Russia), 2012

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011

- Semaines russes au Ciné-Parvis Le Méridien de Tarbes, Tarbes (France), 2010

- Semaine de cinéma russe à la cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image d'Angoulême, Angoulême (France), 2010

- Rencontres de cinéma européen, Vannes (France), 2010

- Festival Pau ville russe, Pau (France), 2009

- The portrayal of Russian women in Russian and Soviet films, Biarritz (France), 2009

- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2009

- Cinémas russes à Montauban, Montauban (France), 2009

- Retrospective Andrey Konchalovsky, Paris (France), 2009

- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2009-02-25

- Cinemania : World Film Panorama, Sofia (Bulgaria), 2008

- Hong-Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong (China), 2008

- Festival international du film de Marrakech : FIFM, Marrakech (Morocco), 2008

- Stockholm International Film Festival, Stockholm (Sweden), 2008

- Festival Russian cinema in Israel, Tel Aviv (Israel), 2007

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2007

- Russian Film Week in New York, New York (USA), 2007

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