A regular at the Cannes Film Festival, Kirill Serebrennikov presented his latest film in competition. After the masterpiece Leto, and Petrov's Fever, this new feature, Tchaikovsky's Wife, is due in cinemas on February 15, 2023.
Kirill Serebrennikov's films most often examine Russian society, and especially its shortcomings. It's a project that led to his being condemned by the country's justice system and placed under house arrest. In Tchaikovsky's Wife, this is also the case, but in a much more subtle way. We meet Antonina Miliukova in 19th-century Russia. This young musician meets and falls in love with composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky. But her love for him turns to obsession, and the young woman is violently rejected. As Tchaikovsky was homosexual, Antonina agreed to endure everything to stay with him.
The story may be little-known, but it has been told many times before, and it's not with his script that the filmmaker could have managed to surprise. So he decided to do what he does best: direct the film brilliantly from start to finish. While the film begins as a classic biopic, the mise-en-scène gradually melts into the personality of its protagonist, who falls into madness as her famous husband rejects her. The result is a baroque flamboyance that borders on the excessive. If you've seen Petrov Fever, you know what Serebrennikov is capable of!
The result is a unique work, mastered from start to finish, sometimes suffocating, that leaves no one indifferent.
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