<...>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
