Euphoria
The mythic and the absurd collide in Ivan Vyrypaev’s ”Euphoria”, every sun-burnished image of which is calculated for maximum, eye-popping effect. Long takes abound, as do sweeping-and-swooping ‘copter shots over the raging waters and rolling fi elds of the Don steppes – these must be the “acres of wheat/cream of wheat” that Woody Allen’s Boris Grushenko speaks of in ”Love and Death”.
– KEITH UHLICH, SLANT
Pic plunges lustily into an operatic love-triangle composed of a farmer, his wife and an interloping goatherd that leads to tragedy on the Southern steppes. Ravishing lensing by Andrey Neidenov and Vyrypaev’s innovative, damn-the-logicfull-speed-ahead helming may be insufficient to win over those adverse to incoherent storytelling, but adventurous auds with a taste for the poetic may feel euphoric over this intoxicating spectacle.
– LESLIE FELPERIN, VARIETY
Dialogue: Russian
Subtitles: English
