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Vodka Lemon (2003)

Posted By: MirrorsMaker
Vodka Lemon (2003)

Vodka Lemon (2003)
DVDRip | AVI | 640 x 336 | XviD @ 994 Kbps | 86 min | 735 Mb
Audio: Armenian (mostly) MP3 @ 128 Kbps | Subs (srt): Arabic, Czech, English, French,
Croatian, Italian, Portuguese-BR, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Genre: Comedy, Drama

In a remote, isolated village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the lovely Nina, who is communing with her late husband. The two are penniless–she works in a local bar that is about to close down, while he has been forced to start selling his meager possessions. All seems hopelessly bleak, yet as Hamo begins to court Nina, their unexpected union revitalizes them.

IMDB - 7 wins

This is a good film – dark, and funny, and absurd. The setting is post-Soviet Armenia, today. Life is bleak in the Caucasus; the young have either emigrated or, if they have stayed, they've either turned cruel and abusive or are exploited through prostitution or tawdry sexual encounters. Most of the people in village are pensioners, however. Everyone is forced to sell their meager belongings just to get by. Life is tedious – unemployed men gather in small groups to drink Vodka Lemon and discuss their effete prospects. A widow and widower, strangers, meet during their regular visits to the graves of their deceased partners. A bit of human warm and humor is thus established. But what gives this film its true strength of statement, and sets is tone, are the absurd moments – it opens with a musician sleigh-riding on his sick-bed; it ends with a piano gliding off down the road into the distance; a man on horseback gallops across the screen at odd moments and for no known purpose. There is no rhyme or reason for the poverty experienced by these characters – its effects are pointless, random, and unpredictable and absurd.
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Vodka Lemon (2003)

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