Title: what a failure!
Review: This film is an awful collection of stereotypes, starting from the wolves on the snow as the opening scene following high society ladies drinking shots of vodka, etc etc.I found it ridiculous that all society people are talking English and all the simple folk - Russian. How awful!! Obviously, the director wanted to draw a line between the classes, but to do it so awkwardly... Yes, Russian high classes were used to mix their Russian speach with French, but there has never been such a total language barrier as the director tries to convince us.I was also surprised to see some good actors giving such totally wooden performances!I doubt the film gets any better towards the end, though I will never know that for I couldn't bring myself to watch it for long (even out of curiosity) as it pained me greatly to see one of the finest works of literature spoiled so heartlessly.
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