Flights in Dreams and Reality
- sombre
Sombre, steady, measured midlife / crisis, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...
Our read · Flights in Dreams and Reality (1982) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive midlife · crisis · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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