The Lover

This is a remarkably subtle film–a character study that focuses on Mitya’s attempts to cope with each new startling phase of discovery. At first he mourns for his dead wife, but then he discovers that he didn’t really know her.

Director: Valery Todorovsky

Cast: Oleg Yankovskiy, Sergey Garmash, Vera Voronkova, Valeriy Prokhorov, Irina Sokolova, Andrei Smirnov, Vladimir Yumatov, Galina Kashkovskaya

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.