Two Women (2014 film)

Two Women (Russian: Две женщины, Dve zhenshchiny) is a 2014 Russian drama film directed by Vera Glagoleva, starring Ralph Fiennes and Sylvie Testud. It is based on Ivan Turgenev's play A Month in the Country. The film received mixed reviews from critics.

Two Women
Film poster
Directed byVera Glagoleva
Produced byNatalya Ivanova
Screenplay bySvetlana Grudovich
Olga Pogodina-Kuzmina
Based onA Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev
Music bySergei Banevich
CinematographyGints Berzins
Production
company
Horosho Production House
Release date
  • August 2014 (2014-08) (Window to Europe Film Festival)[1]
Running time
117 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Budget€ 2,860,000

Plot

At the heart of the play lies the love quadrangle. Natalya Petrovna, the wife of the rich landowner Arkady Sergeich Islaev, falls in love with Alexey Nikolayevich Belyaev - a student, teacher Kolya Islaeva.

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Rakitin - a friend of the family, has long loved Natalya Petrovna. Verochka - a pupil of Natalya Petrovna also falls in love with Kolya's teacher. Belyaev and Rakitin eventually leave the estate ...

Cast
  • Anna Vartanyan-Astrakhantseva (ru) as Natalya Petrovna Islaeva
  • Ralph Fiennes as Mikhail Aleksandrovich Rakitin
  • Aleksandr Baluev as Arkady Sergeich Islaev
  • Sylvie Testud as Elisavetta Bogdanovna
  • Anna Levanova as Verochka
  • Nikita Volkov as Alexey Nikolayevich Belyaev
  • Larisa Malevannaya as Anna Semenovna Islaeva
  • Bernd Moss as Schaaf
  • Sergey Yushkevich as Ignaty Shpigelsky
  • Vasiliy Mishchenko as Bolshentsov
  • Anna Nahapetova as Katya

Reception

Two Women has an approval rating of 89% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 9 reviews, and an average rating of 6.00/10.[2] It also has a score of 54 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 4 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[3]

Clarence Tsui of The Hollywood Reporter wrote:

Fiennes' superficial turn (in more ways than one, as his lines ended up overdubbed by a Russian voice actor) is hampered more by circumstances than ability: rather than playing on the multiple possibilities underlining Turgenev's once-transgressive comedy of manners, actress-turned-filmmaker Vera Glagoleva's 21st century take is a po-faced, straitjacketed affair, as she (and her screenwriters Svetlana Grudovich and Olga Pogodina-Kuzima) play out the entangled relationships as excessively affected period drama. While certainly lushly mounted, Two Women is at best a piece of dated heritage cinema, and at worst cliche-ridden pomp.[4]

References
  1. Blaney2014-08-05T11:08:00+01:00, Martin. "Depardieu's Viktor to premiere in Russia". Screen.
  2. "Two Women (Mesyats v derevne) (2014)" – via www.rottentomatoes.com.
  3. https://www.metacritic.com/movie/two-women-2017
  4. Tsui, Clarence (2014-09-18). "'Two Women' ('Dve Zhenshchiny'): Vladivostok Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2016-06-28.


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