Buy Me (Russian: Купи меня, romanized: Kupi menya) is a 2018 Russian crime drama film directed by Vadim Perelman. It was nominated for the Golden St. George Award at the 39st Moscow International Film Festival.[1][2][3]
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| Russian: Купи меня | |
| Directed by | Vadim Perelman |
| Screenplay by | Darya Gratsevich |
| Produced by | Fyodor Bondarchuk Alexey Ageyev Semyon Slepakov Taimuraz Badziev Vyacheslav Dusmukhametov Darya Gratsevich |
| Starring | Yulia Khlynina Anna Adamovich Svetlana Ustinova |
| Cinematography | Yuri Nikogosov |
| Edited by | Alexey Bobrov |
| Music by | Ilya Truskovsky |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Central Partnership |
Release date |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Budget | $900 000 |
| Box office | $399 733 |
Plot
editKatya Korolyova from Moscow, a student of the Faculty of Philology, who won a grant to study the archives of the Russian poet Vladislav Khodasevich in Paris, secretly from her mother, instead of a study trip, goes to Abu Dhabi to build a career in modeling there. As a result, she actually turns out to be among the girls who have to please the Arab sheikhs for money. Thanks to the scandal arranged by Katya, the group of models is sent back to Russia.
Returning to Moscow, the adventurer Katya and her two newly-made provincial friends Liza and Galya rent one apartment for three and begin to live off wealthy men, usually married. More experienced friends teach naive Katya how to hunt oligarchs correctly in order to secure a luxurious and carefree future for herself. In pursuit of the dream of a beautiful life, friends will have to make a difficult choice and sacrifice something.
Cast
edit- Yulia Khlynina as Katya Korolyova
- Anna Adamovich as Liza
- Svetlana Ustinova as Galya
- Mikael Janibekyan as Suren
- Ivan Dobronravov as Misha
- Evgeniya Kryukova as Olga, Katya's mother
- Alexander Oblasov as taxi driver
- Evgeniya Dmitrieva as business lady
- Klim Shipenko as anesthesiologist
Critical response
editFilm critic Boris Ivanov in Film.ru notes in his review:[4]
The heroines do not win special audience sympathy, but they do not need it, because you watch the film to find out what else the girls will throw out and how else they will joke. A cynical Russian comedy about girls of easy virtue, which awkwardly turns into a drama in the finale.
In turn, Zinaida Pronchenko said:[5]
We have seen all this many, many times in films with varying degrees of unconvincingness, ridiculing the lack of spirituality in the capital. Heroes without a past and a future wander in the fog of modernity, the era is recognized by brands, gadgets, musical hits and Internet memes. But, in general, the authors do not know anything about their characters.
References
edit- ^ Конкурсные и российские программы открываются на Московском кинофестивале. — Жюри предстоит первым оценить фильм «Купи меня» Вадима Перельмана
- ^ 39 ММКФ: «Купи меня» − куда приводят мечты о красивой жизни
- ^ Показ фильма «Купи меня» на ММКФ прошёл с аншлагом
- ^ Ivanov, Boris (February 27, 2018). "Рецензия на фильм «Купи меня»" (in Russian). Film.ru.
- ^ Pronchenko, Zinaida (March 8, 2018). "Рецензия на фильм «Купи меня»" (in Russian). Seans.