Two Women (2014 film)

Two Women
Film poster
Directed by Vera Glagoleva
Produced by Natalya Ivanova
Screenplay by Svetlana Grudovich
Olga Pogodina-Kuzmina
Based on A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev
Music by Sergei Banevich
Cinematography Gints Berzins
Production
company
Horosho Production House
Release date
  • 2014 (2014)
Running time
 117 minutes
Country Russia
Language Russian
Budget € 2,860,000

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.

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

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.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Tsui, Clarence (2014-09-18). "'Two Women' ('Dve Zhenshchiny'): Vladivostok Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2016-06-28.
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