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Arrhythmia (Russian: Аритми́я) is a 2017 Russian drama film directed by Boris Khlebnikov. Participant of the contest Kinotavr.[2] It was released on 28 September 2017. Filmed in Yaroslavl, Russia. This is a movie described a paramedic devoted to his patients struggles to make time for his wife who begins to believe his patients are more important to him than she is.[3]

Arrhythmia
Directed byBoris Khlebnikov
Screenplay by
Produced by
  • Ruben Dishdishyan
  • Sergey Selyanov
  • Natalya Drozd
  • Aleksi Hyvärinen
  • Eva Blondiau
Starring
CinematographyAlisher Khamidkhodzhaev
Edited by
  • Ivan Lebedev
  • Yulia Batalova
Production
companies
  • CTB Film Company
  • Color of May
  • Don Films
  • Mars Media Entertainment
  • Post Control
Release date
  • September 28, 2017 (2017-09-28)
Running time
116 minutes
Countries
  • Russia
  • Finland
  • Germany[1]
LanguageRussian
Box office$1,433,366

Oleg is a talented paramedic. His ambulance rushes from patient to patient. He knows his timely arrival can tip the scales of life and death. Each of his professional successes makes the world a little better. His main focus is always on doing the impossible. The rest — his career, his family, and his own life — can wait. Or can they? While Oleg is busy saving the lives of strangers, his wife has filed for divorce in despair. The new boss at the hospital cares only about statistics and rules. Yet Oleg's ambulance still rushes from one call to the next to save another person's life. Which is easier: to save others, or to save yourself.[4]


Plot


Oleg is a young gifted paramedic. He likes to get drunk after each shift. His wife Katya, a doctor, works at the hospital emergency department. She loves Oleg but is fed up with him caring more about patients than her. She tells him she wants a divorce. However, they have to remain living together until Oleg finds a new place. In the meantime, the new head of Oleg's EMA substation is a cold-hearted manager who's got new strict rules to implement. Oleg couldn't care less about the rules - he's got lives to save. His attitude gets him in trouble with the new boss. The crisis at work coincides with the personal life crisis. Caught between emergency calls, alcohol-fueled off-shifts, and search for a meaning in life, Oleg and Katya have to find the binding force that keeps them together.


Themes


The principle of morality in this film is a matter of choice for everybody. So, the truth becomes a cornerstone concept and a form-building element of the film. As we know, everyone has their own truth: Oleg's truth is life-saving, sometimes even at the expense of others’ lives; Katia's is an attempt to understand Oleg's space by separating from him.


Artistic approach


Boris Khlebnikov's Arrhythmia, as well as A Long and Happy Life (Dolgaia i schastlivaia zhizn’, 2012), are about understanding, and about the alienation of modern man, about a kind of intolerance. At the same time the deep tragedy of the characters in Arrhythmia lies in the trivial drama of family relations. Khlebnikov's film is a modern story about eternal choices, because there are no bad or good characters.[5]

The documentary stylistics of the wandering camera, the almost natural lighting, the lack of accompanying music form the brush that creates this lively and sincere portrait of a man. The truth lies in the severity of social and moral conflicts, in their clash and in the absence of smoothed corners of urgent contemporary issues, which incidentally are shown very delicately and without excessive hyperbolization or exaggeration. Therefore, the “trembling” camera and the sometimes ragged editing are carefully arranged accents by the director, who naturally focuses the viewer's attention on sincerity and genuine emotions. Due to the complex dramatic structure—similar to the rhythm of cardiogram, which soars up to small heights or victories and then falls again at emotionally and morally tense points—the film acquires a peculiar tempo, a swinging rhythm, which allows the action to be dragged out and sped up. This pattern embodies the principle of the natural flow of time, above all, in the space of the viewer's consciousness.[6]


Cast


NameRole
Aleksandr YatsenkoOleg Mironov
Irina GorbachevaIrina
Nikolay ShrayberDima Yakushkin
Maksim LegashkinVitaliy Sergeevich Golovko
Sergey NasedkinNikolaich
Aleksandr SamoylenkoMikhail

[7]


Release



Critical response and review


Arrhythmia has an approval rating of 100% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 7 reviews, and an average rating of 8.00/10. In IMDb, the movie was rated by 4896 audience with an average rating of 7.4/10,signifying "generally favorable reviews". About 30.3% of the audience rated 8/10, and 25.6% of the audience rated 7/10. The Hollywood comment the camerawork in Arrhythmia as”a documentary-style naturalism that gives Arrhythmia more of a televisual than cinematic look”.[8] The Karlovy Vary Film also review that the crema man present the “breakdown of allyship between them is encapsulated in a series of utterly believable interactions.” [9]

Alexandra Porshneva reviewed that "The notorious subject of love that long ago turned into cheap boudoir clichés is saturated with the strongest images and highlighted by complex, subtle moments of pain. How vivid and poetic is the image of Oleg running away without looking back from his beloved, who carries away all his pain and fear: a man running to loneliness. We may contrast this scene with the previous one, showing the intimate affinity of husband and wife in the kitchen, which demonstrates close physical contact but, in fact, reveals complete alienation. Here is the effect of contradiction of action and feeling, which helps transmit the image of boundless love for a neighbor, for business, for life—as bright and accurate as possible. Surprisingly, the subtle acting here does not destroy the multi-layered action but only emphasizes the naturalness and “commonness” of what is happening. How flexible in her obstinacy is Irina Gorbacheva as Katia, how expressive in his vulnerability and even in infantility is Aleksandr Iatsenko as Oleg. Perhaps it will sound loud, but Arrhythmia is a most sincere film about love. This statement is reinforced by an obvious fact: it is about love as a feeling that is incredibly painful and strong, classed just as compassion and forgiveness...

It is important to feel the autumn air of a provincial city through a film: so simple and real, a bit cold due to the grey color of the new buildings. For a moment, even the cinematic space seemed more real than life, but after returning to the gloss of cyclic reality this viewer still wanted to get sick with arrhythmia again."[10]


Accolades


In June 2017, Arrhythmia won the Grand Prix, Best Actor (Aleksander Yatsenko) and the Audience Award at the Kinotavr festival in Sochi, Russia.[11]

At the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival the film received the award for Best Actor (Aleksander Yatsenko).[12]

It was also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival (in the Contemporary World Cinema section).[13]


Festivals and awards


Arrhythmia has screened at many festivals and won awards, including:[14]


References


  1. "Kinotavr [catalogue]" (PDF). p. 18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-07-02. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
  2. The president of Kinotavr believes that there are 4-5 interesting films in the contest
  3. "Arrhythmia (2017) Full Cast & Crew". IMDb.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "Film: Arrhythmia". CTB Film Company. Retrieved April 17, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. Alexandra, Porshneva. "Boris Khlebnikov: Arrhythmia (Aritmiia, 2017)".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. Alexandra, Porshneva. "Boris Khlebnikov: Arrhythmia (Aritmiia, 2017)".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. "CAST & CREW". Rotten Tomatoes.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. Dalton, Stephen (13 July 2017). "'Arrhythmia' ('Aritmiya'): Film Review | Karlovy Vary 2017". The Hollywood Reporter.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. Kiang, Jessica (5 July 2017). "Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Arrhythmia'".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. Alexandra, Porshneva. "Boris Khlebnikov: Arrhythmia (Aritmiia, 2017)".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. Vladimir Kozlov (2017-06-14). "'Arrhythmia Wins Grand Prix at Russia's Kinotavr Fest". Hollywood Reporter.
  12. "Czech-Slovak Film 'Little Crusader' Wins Top Prize at Karlovy Vary Film Festival". Variety. 8 July 2017.
  13. "Contemporary World Cinema – Arrhythmia". Toronto International Film Festival.
  14. "Arrhytyhmia". CTB Film Company.



На других языках

- [en] Arrhythmia (film)

[ru] Аритмия (фильм)

«Аритми́я» — драматический фильм режиссёра Бориса Хлебникова. Картина участвовала в основной конкурсной программе кинофестиваля «Кинотавр» 2017 года[2] и была награждена Гран-при, призом за лучшую мужскую роль и призом зрительских симпатий[3][4].


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