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Two Women (2014 film)

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Directed by
  
Vera Glagoleva

Music by
  
Sergei Banevich

Produced by
  
Natalya Ivanova

Cinematography
  
Gints Berzins

Screenplay by
  
Svetlana Grudovich Olga Pogodina-Kuzmina

Based on
  
A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev

Two Women (Russian: Две женщины Dve zhenshchiny) is a 2014 Russian drama film directed by Vera Glagoleva, starring Ralph Fiennes and Sylvie Testud. It is based on Ivan Turgenev's play A Month in the Country.

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Cast

  • Ralph Fiennes as Mikhail Rakitin
  • Sylvie Testud as Elisavetta Bogdanovna
  • Aleksandr Baluev as Alexey Islaev
  • Larisa Malevannaya as Anna Semenovna
  • Bernd Moss as Schaaf
  • Anna Vartanyan as Natalya Petrovna Islaeva
  • Sergey Yushkevich as Ignaty Shpigelsky
  • Vasiliy Mishchenko as Bolshentsov
  • Anna Levanova as Verochka
  • Nikita Volkov as Alexey Belyaev

    • Reception

    Clarence Tsui of The Hollywood Reporter wrote:

    Fiennes' superficial turn (in more ways than one, as his lines ended up overdubbed by a Russian voice actor) is hampered more by circumstances than ability: rather than playing on the multiple possibilities underlining Turgenev's once-transgressive comedy of manners, actress-turned-filmmaker Vera Glagoleva's 21st century take is a po-faced, straitjacketed affair, as she (and her screenwriters Svetlana Grudovich and Olga Pogodina-Kuzima) play out the entangled relationships as excessively affected period drama. While certainly lushly mounted, Two Women is at best a piece of dated heritage cinema, and at worst cliche-ridden pomp.

    References

    Two Women (2014 film) Wikipedia
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