Renata LITVINOVA Рената ЛИТВИНОВА Renata LITVINOVA   Russia, 2004, 105 mn  Colour, fiction

The Goddess ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Богиня: как я полюбила    Déesse  Boginiya: kak ya polyubila

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Plot synopsis

[...]In The Goddess, Litvinova examines this dynamic further, expanding on the experience of one individual from her array of beautiful homunculi. Faina is an investigator with a division of Moscow police, who has an uncanny and hit-and-miss style of inspection, who lives in a moodily dilapidated apartment with red high heels for house-slippers, and who is haunted by dreams that exhort her toward death. All of the above seems related directly to her great tragic flaw: “I do not understand anything about love.” Faina states this, truthfully and without affectation, and elicits any number of allusive definitions of love: it is a river one cannot climb out of; it is something not quite fleshy, but still bloody; it is viscerally fleshy as well as bloody; it is the meaning of life. These definitions, for the most part realized verbally instead of visually, fail for the greater part of the film to resonate within Faina’s loveless soul.[...]
Elise Thorsen, rusfilm.pitt.edu/

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

The Goddess: How I Fell in Love [Богиня: Как я полюбила], Elise THORSEN, rusfilm.pitt.edu, 2012

Camp Cinema : Russian Style, rusfilm.pitt.edu, 2012

Renata Litvinova, The Goddess [Boginia] (2004), Seth GRAHAM, kinokultura.com, 2005

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- International debut film festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2013

- Author Cinema Festival "Polnyy arthouse", Chelyabinsk (Russia), 2013

- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2012

- Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Pesaro (Italy), 2010

- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2007

- Festival Kinoblick, Stuttgart (Germany), 2005

- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2005

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2005

- Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2004

- Window to Europe Film Festival, Vyborg, Vyborg (Russia), 2004

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