Saturday, March 15th 2008 at 20h30
UGC Ciné Cité Rouen

Mermaid (Rusalka)

(Feature film, Russia, 2007, 115’, Color, OVFST)

Directed by: Anna Melykian
With: Mariya Shalayeva, Yevgeni Tsyganov, Marya Sokova, Anastasiya Dontsova, Veronika Skugina…
Produced by: Central Partnership (Moscow)

Synopsis:
The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true. She must reconcile this belief with reality when, as a young woman, she journeys to Moscow and grapples with love, modernity and materialism.

Review:
"Mermaid does what every great fairy tale should do: transport its audience to another place. As Alisa journeys from the run-down seaside community of her childhood to Moscow, every frame seems to pulsate with relentless visual inventiveness and a mischievous comic tone. "Humor is my main instrument," Melikyan says. "I think that to understand a subject completely, you should find something funny about it."
Matthew Ross