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LOVELESS-SENZA AMORE

Dal 70. Festival del Cinema di Cannes - Dal 6 Dicembre

(Nelyubov; RUSSIA/FRANCIA 2017; Drammatico; 127'; Produz.: Arte France Cinéma/Les Films du Fleuve/Non-Stop Productions/Senator Film Produktion/Why Not Productions; Distribuz.: Pyramide Distribution (distribuzione internazionale); Academy Two (distribuzione italiana))

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Titolo in italiano: Loveless-Senza amore Titolo in lingua originale: Nelyubov Anno di produzione: 2017 Anno di uscita: 2017 Regia: Andrey Zvyagintsev Sceneggiatura: Oleg Negin e Andrey Zvyagintsev Cast: Alexey Rozin (Boris) Maryana Spivak (Zhenya) Matvey Novikov (Alyosha) Yanina Hope (fidanzata ) Daria Pisareva (Dasha) Marina Vasilyeva (Masha) Andris Keiss (Anton) Aleksey Fateev (Coordinatore) Varvara Shmykova (Lena) Maxim Stoianov (Hustler) Musica: Evgueni e Sacha Galperine Scenografia: Andrey Ponkratov Fotografia: Mikhail Krichman Montaggio: Anna Mass Scheda film aggiornata al: 24 Luglio 2024

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Zhenya e Boris sono una ex coppia alle prese con un brutto divorzio. Entrambi hanno già nuovi compagni e sono desiderosi di lasciarsi il passato alle spalle, anche se ciò significa abbandonare il dodicenne figlio Alyosha. Dopo avere assistito a uno dei violenti litigi dei genitori, Alyosha scompare nel nulla.

Synopsis:

In Moscow, at the end of the school day, students are departing on their way home. One twelve year old boy, Alexey, decides to take an indirect path home rather than using the regular city streets. Alexey takes a path which leads him to walk by a local river in a wooded area just on the outskirts of town. He appears to be in no particular rush to get home. His parents, Zhenya and Boris, are in the midst of obtaining a divorce, with much animosity. They are portrayed as having divergent and incompatible personalities, she is demonstrative and self-indulgent visiting salons and beauticians, while he is reserved and self-controlled. Both are trying to form new lives in new relationships.

One day, it is discovered that the boy has disappeared from home, and his mother calls the police for assistance. At first, the police see this as the simple case of a runaway child and expect the boy to return home within a day or two. However, when Alexey does not return, then another supervisor takes over the case and promptly initiates a preliminary search for the boy by sending the parents to estranged relatives in the hope of locating him. They are first sent to see if Alexey is at his mother's parents. Alexey is not there when they arrive, though their trip to visit her mother out of town is punctuated by tension between the estranged relatives and Boris is verbally berated and excoriated by Zhenya. On the return trip home, her verbal abuse escalates to the point that Boris discharges her on the rural roadway before they get back to town.

The failure of the police to find Alexey promptly escalates the search for him into an all out emergency missing persons search across the town and surrounding areas. A search of an abandoned municipal building from an old dilapidated city development project where Alexey was known to have visited turns up nothing. Finally, the parents are asked to come to the morgue to examine and try to identify the remains of a John Doe child of still unknown identity. The parents both deny that the disfigured dead child's body is their son, though the experience of being put through the identification process is emotionally traumatic to them as they breakdown in tears of desperation, with Alexey still missing.

Later, Alexey's mother has sold their apartment and workers begin dismantling wall hangings and appliances left behind in the now vacant apartment. Outside on the street, missing person posters of Alexey now canvas large parts of the city trying to seek help in locating the missing boy. The scene shifts to the nearby river by the wooded path which Alexey used to use to walk home after school and the view focuses on an extended landscape scene looking through naked winter branches of the surrounding very tall trees. The tree branches sway slightly against the winter sky with no sight of Alexey or anyone else among the naked winter branches against the winter sky

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