Giving this an 7/10 rating
Kirill Serebrennikov, who I know for his last feature 'Petrov's Flu', which was crazy, delivers his visual style and narrative to this tale of the woman's view, just like 'Priscilla' by Sofia Coppola, which is also showing now.
This Russian film film does not hold back, it is bleak in looks and sound, but is also beautiful in both, and plenty of touches of surreal, dream like moments of madness in the most strangest places, that do work well in favour of the story, it's not very uplifting, but still interesting.
Alyona Mikhailova plays the poor suffering wife of Tchaikovsky, and she is nothing short of excellent as she plays love, hate, despair and lust, like no other, and she is super watchable, Odin Lund Biron plays Tchaikovsky like a soft man, and then a rouge, he is just as good. It's a perfect casting as they spar very time on screen.
Serebrennikov's direction plays with our senses and questions what we are witnessing, I have to wonder too, this tale is so unknown to me, but its' based on events so, far enough. Plenty of nudity and sex here, even in the grime of horrible living conditions of the 1800's of Russia, It's a must watch in the biggest screen you can find if you want the best out of it.
