Lista visioni cinematografiche di Luciano


 
 Wodka lemon (Vodka Lemon)
 
pic_movie_479   NUM   479  
  DATA E CINEMA   2004.02.26 FIUME (CINEF 41-19)  
  RASSEGNA   CINEFORUM CHAPLIN  
 
     
  REGISTA   Hiner Saleem  
  ATTORI   Romen Avinian, Lala Sarkissian, Ivan Franek  
  PRODUTTORE   Fabrice Guez, Taguhi Karapetyan, Pierrick Le Pochat, Michel Loro, Tiziana Soudani  
  SCENEGGIATORE   Lei Dinety, Pauline Gouzenne, Hiner Saleem  
  COMPOSITORE   Michel Korb, Roustam Sadoyan  
  PAESE   France, Italy, Switzerland, Armenia  
  CATEGORIA   Comedy, Drama  
  ANNO   2003  
  DURATA   90 minuti  
  LINGUA   Armenian, Kurdish, Russian, French  
  SOTTOTITOLI    
  URL   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379577  
 
 
 
DESCRIZIONE   In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the lovely Nina, who is communing with her late...
 
COMMENTO   (by lee_eisenberg on 22 October 2015)

This year is the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, and there has been ample discussion of it. Less focused on is the country's recent history. Hiner Saleem's "Vodka Lemon" looks at a Kurdish village in Armenia in the years after the Soviet collapse. Most of the young people have left and the aging population has to resort to near subsistence living. In the midst of this a widower and widow develop a relationship. The people do what they can to survive in a society that's forgotten them. As one person says, the only thing that they have now is freedom.
The director is an Iraqi-born Kurd who fled Iraq in the early '80s. I understand that he wanted the movie to reflect the status of the Kurds in general: forgotten by most of the world. There's no doubt that World War I partly caused this for both the Armenians and Kurds. After that senseless war took millions of lives, not only did Armenia get reduced to a small territory without access to Mt. Ararat, but the Kurds didn't even get their own country (nor did the Palestinians).
Anyway, it's a good movie. I especially like that we get to hear both Armenian, Kurdish and Russian spoken. It won't be for everyone, but I recommend it.