Natasha (2015 film)

Natasha
Directed by David Bezmozgis
Produced by Bill Marks
Deborah Marks
Written by David Bezmozgis
Starring Alex Ozerov
Sasha K. Gordon
Aidan Shipley
Lola Tash
Cinematography Guy Godfree
Edited by Michelle Szemberg
Production
company
Natasha Films
Distributed by Mongrel Media
Release date
  • November 7, 2015 (2015-11-07) (BJFF)
Running time
 93 minutes
Country Canada
Language English
Russian

Natasha is a Canadian drama film, released in Canada in 2016 and in the United States in 2017. The film was written and directed by David Bezmozgis, based on the title story from his 2004 short story collection Natasha and Other Stories.[1] Natasha and Other Stories was a NY Times Notable Book and was translated into 15 languages.

Plot

Mark Berman (Alex Ozerov), an idealistic Jewish Canadian teenager in Toronto is seduced into a torrid affair by the mysteriously appearing but extremely ruthless Natasha (Sasha K. Gordon), the daughter of his uncle Fima's new Russian mail-order bride who has been living a double life as a sex worker since childhood.[2] Although the original short story took place in the 1980s, for the film Bezmozgis updated the temporal setting to the present day in order to explore the impact of contemporary technology, such as the internet, on the story.[3]

Release

The film premiered at the Boston Jewish Film Festival in November 2015,[3] and was screened at several other film festivals before going into general commercial release in Canada in May 2016.[4]

Awards

The film garnered two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, for Best Actress (Gordon) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Bezmozgis).[5]

Reception

Natasha scored an "Extremely Fresh" rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7.1/10 user rating on IMDb. Canada's newspaper of record, The Globe and Mail gave a 3/4.

References

Menemsha Films is the distributor for the United States

https://www.menemshafilms.com/natasha

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