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Une femme douce

Original title: Krotkaya
  • 2017
  • Tous publics avec avertissement
  • 2h 23m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
2.6K
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Une femme douce (2017)
A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.
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A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package ... Read allA woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.

  • Director
    • Sergey Loznitsa
  • Writers
    • Fyodor Dostoevsky
    • Sergey Loznitsa
  • Stars
    • Valeriu Andriuta
    • Liya Akhedzhakova
    • Sergey Koshonin
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    2.6K
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    • Director
      • Sergey Loznitsa
    • Writers
      • Fyodor Dostoevsky
      • Sergey Loznitsa
    • Stars
      • Valeriu Andriuta
      • Liya Akhedzhakova
      • Sergey Koshonin
    • 14User reviews
    • 66Critic reviews
    • 78Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 13 nominations total

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    Valeriu Andriuta
    Valeriu Andriuta
    • Blue face
    • (as Valeriu Andriutã)
    Liya Akhedzhakova
    Liya Akhedzhakova
    • Human Rights activist
    Sergey Koshonin
    • Criminal authority
    Sergey Russkin
    Sergey Russkin
    • Head of the prison
    Boris Kamorzin
    Boris Kamorzin
    • Man with the arms in plaster
    Roza Khayrullina
    Roza Khayrullina
    • Passenger, her sister
    Sergey Kolesov
    Sergey Kolesov
    • Man with spread teeth
    Sergei Russkin
    Vasilina Makovtseva
    Vasilina Makovtseva
    • A gentle creature
    Sergey Fyodorov
    Sergey Fyodorov
    • Taxi driver
    • (as Sergey Fedorov)
    Konstantin Itunin
    • Fellow traveler
    Alisa Kravtsova
    • Young harlot
    Vladislav Vasiliev
    • Young man with long hair
    Nikolay Kolyada
    • Pauper
    • (as Nikolai Kolyada)
    Viktor Nemets
    • Goat-faced man in train
    Svetlana Kolesova
    Svetlana Kolesova
    • Gaoler
    Marina Kleshcheva
    • The compassionate one
    Aleksandr Zamuraev
    • Police lieutenant
    • (as Alexander Zamuraev)
    • Director
      • Sergey Loznitsa
    • Writers
      • Fyodor Dostoevsky
      • Sergey Loznitsa
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    User reviews14

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    Humphreywashere

    Worth watching - masterful, efficient and rich storyteling

    'A gentle creature' defies categorisation, it is rich with both metaphor and realism. A Russian woman, depicted as 'gentle', searches for an explanation about the seeming disappearance of her husband who should still be in a Siberian prison. Her emotion during this journey is blunted and she gradually weakens further from lack of sleep and tiredness, until she is entirely and completely vulnerable. A courageous woman, she experiences the most extreme bureaucracy and corruption, the type that is the stuff of nightmares. This is masterfully depicted throughout, in scenes that no Hollywood movie is able to match. The viewer feels entrapped like the woman, and her emotional bluntness is understood completely.

    Described by other reviewers as bleak, I found the dark mood of this story somewhat balanced by the humanity shown by others, strangers to the woman, who also suffer similar if not worse dilemmas than the woman. Her journey is her own, solitary and with great risk, but she is never invisible to others. Life in this Siberian town may be cold and harsh, but is life in any modern city any less warm?
    7GiraffeDoor

    Reminds me of a few different things, but I've never seen anything quite like it.

    When I first read the premise of this movie (the returned package) I wasn't sure if this would be a horror movie or not.

    What I got is decidedly not a horror movie but it is indeed terrifying in its own way.

    An ineffably strange and atmospheric odyssey of one woman through a prison town, meeting vivid character after vivid character, each cartoonish in their own way yet at once, almost too real, like a sort of modern day urban Alice in Wonderland.

    Valentina Makovtseva plays this unfortunate wife with a quite, smouldering intensity that makes me sure I would recognise her in anything else I see. Even in her resting face she is hard to forget. The candid, episodic narrative tells a story of modern Russia in the numerous people that make it up; a world composed of those desperately trying to make the best of a system that no one seems to have seen coming and those who are part of the system and where the petty criminals and the law enforcement are alike in brutality and apathy.

    Although it is not a horror movie, it is envisioned exactly as one should be: the seductive cinematography, the candid angles, the way it always lingers on action even when the scene is effectively at its close; I hope the director of this does direct a horror one day. No need to write it, just give a good script their treatment.

    This movie is sort of like a Russian turnip. Not sweet and definitely unsavoury, but on some level I suspect its good for you. Though it's never aggressive, it never relents, it takes no short cuts yet it never drags. It leaves a bitter taste in the mouth that I don't think I'll ever forget.
    7Aktham_Tashtush

    Good movie ,, with a mysterious, somewhat distributing ending ..

    First i gotta commend the cinematography ,, really impressive and montage just transition you into those miserable moments "gentle creature" experience ,, i mean her facial expressions were on point, for an amateur actress, and this is her first lead (big screen) ,, but it is apparent she is professional in "theater" ..

    Anyway,, the story is emotional ,, and even though the script was not that strong, the events just keeps on pulling you to engage more and just try to find whether she gets to meet her husband or not.

    final thought, recommended , but don't get bored from the first 20 minutes ,,, keep on watching ,.
    8Xstal

    Tragedy in Russia...

    A woman struggles to access her imprisoned husband, to get him a parcel, to check on his wellbeing: not in the 19th century, but modern day Russia - a damning film about corruption and the devastation it leaves, the tragic effects it has on the innocent and the sour taste it leaves behind.
    9rafaelmanory

    Frightening

    This incredible movie was hard to watch but it was well worth it. The original story of Fyodor Dostoyevsky was adapted by the director to Putin's time, so much so that I thought that the movie (filmed in 2017) was made after the start of the present Ukraine war. The un-named woman leaves her residence and travels to the prison where her husband is held, without knowing that she enters a kafkaesque maze where the individual is a prisoner of the whim of the authorities. The reader is advised to remember all the passersby because they will be back towards the end. A very unusual movie, worth watching by all means despite its length.

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      Gedreht wurde in Lettland.
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      Referenced in Radio Dolin: Sergei Loznitsa (2022)

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    • Release date
      • August 16, 2017 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Germany
      • Lithuania
      • Netherlands
    • Official sites
      • Haut et Court (France)
      • LOOKSfilm (Germany)
    • Languages
      • Russian
      • French
    • Also known as
      • A Gentle Creature
    • Filming locations
      • Daugavpils, Latvia
    • Production companies
      • Slot Machine
      • Arte France Cinéma
      • GP Cinema Company
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    • Budget
      • €2,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $211,875
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    • Runtime
      • 2h 23m(143 min)
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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