Hipsters
Moscow 1955. Hot Jazz Meets Cold War.
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 19, 2013
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Oksana Akinshina | |
Directed by | Valery Todorovsky | |
Screenwriting by | Yuri Korotkov | |
Director of Photography: | Roman Vasyanov |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
An endearing curiosity that, at 125 minutes, is as badly in need of a trim as the hair of its comically coiffed dandies.
New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
It's taken the Russian musical "Hipsters" four years to reach America. That's all right. It may take audiences four years to recover.
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Boston Globe
Rating: 1.5/4 --
Hipsters gets rubles for trying, but what's on screen is thin and obvious, the characters one-dimensional, the musical numbers and satire vapid.
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Boston Phoenix
Rating: 9/10 --
The birth of the cool in the USSR forged into a rocking Soviet Graffitti that will heat the world.
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Monsters and Critics
Rating: 3/4 --
You could get whiplash trying to keep up with everything, but I suspect that's what hyperactive director Valeriy Todorovskiy is going for...
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Rating: 2/4 --
I really wanted to enjoy this cause I really liked what the movie was going for and the numbers are often fun. But there were too many things that bothered me to enjoy it.
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Sin Magazine
Rating: 2.5/4 --
A candy-colored confection with a dark, bittersweet center.
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Washington Post
Product Description:
This fine period musical dramatizes a subject both unique and distinguished: the movement of jazz fans (known as "Stilyagi") who flaunted their open-mindedness and fearlessly mocked Communist repression in 1955 Moscow. The central premise (which channels Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins' West Side Story) deals with a star-crossed romance between two lovers on opposite sides of the said fence: Mels (Anton Shagin) is a pro-communist Komsomol activist, Polly (Oksana Akinshina) is a sexy, uninhibited, free-spirited member of the Stilyagi; they fall instantly in love despite vast differences, and Polly turns her new paramour on to the many pleasures of the West, including jazz music. Significantly, although the real-life members of the Stilyagi experienced sad fates (such as imprisonment), this cinematic treatment of them exudes a bright and upbeat sensibility, marked by glossy musical numbers that are scattered throughout.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 107,297
- UPC: 738329110529
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