Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down (2020)
His motto was laconic: "I promised - stay still." This is how Alexei Balabanov lived, raised his sons, was friends, and so filmed. A legendary director and an extraordinary person who made both "festival" and "mass" films with equal ease. He was a great father and a difficult husband, a loyal friend and an honest guy. Balabanov with his life, passions, losses, burning pain on the way to God in the memories of those closest to him - mother, sons, wife and friends. He seems to be telling the crew again: "Let's do it talentedly!"
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If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.