Sarik ANDREASIAN Сарик АНДРЕАСЯН Sarik ANDREASSIAN   Russia, 2011, 90 mn  Colour, fiction

Sluzhebnyy roman. Nashe vremya ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Служебный роман. Наше время    Romance de bureau. Notre époque  Sluzhebnyy roman. Nashe vremya

Plot synopsis

<...>Although Sarik Andreasian’s remake of El’dar Riazanov’s 1977 classic is partly situated in Moscow and we see characters frantically chatting on the social network Moi mir, it is hard to understand what bearing the film has on contemporary Russia, or even on that tiny part of society–Moscow’s financial world—whose life and customs it claims to depict. Would it make more sense to view the film as a modern example of lakirovka, that is, as an embellished rendition of reality that is blatantly presented as actual reality? If that is the case, Office Romance. Our Time might make it to the lecture room.<...>
Source : Otto Boele, kinokultura.com

Commentaries and bibliography

Sarik Andreasian: Office Romance. Our Time (Sluzhebnyi roman. Nashe vremia, 2011), Otto BOELE, kinokultura.com, 2011

Selected in the following festivals :

- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2013

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