Musical comedy.
The new heroine of film, Monroe (she is also Liubov Orlova
and the post-girl Strelka), or, to be exact, her (speaking
and singing) HEAD, has immersed herself into the filmís
plot, its black-and-white proletarian values, its pseudoclassical
cartoon style. Around this head, which is like a
picture hung on a wall, spin meanings and contexts; the old
logic breaks up and makes way for a new, jocular perspective
that projects Putinís Russia. The white colonnades of the
locks of the Moscow-Volga Canal, the steamship ìJoseph
Stalinî, and even Leninís statue, become skeptical scenery,
while the proud Soviet people who desperately travel to the
distant and longed-for capital, to the all-union competition of
amateur performances, resemble more and more the crowds of
revolutionaries and ragamuffins, who may not even have an
aim. But there is a song. And the words cannot be
disentangled from the song.
World Premiere: Rotterdam IFF (programme "Cine Fantom
Day"), 2006.
Source : www.kinotavr.ru