1979 · comedy · satire
Garage
Directed by Eldar Ryazanov1h 41m1979
An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to reduce the number of garages. As all was already decided and arranged by the chairholder and the board, the decision passes easily at the meeting. But one unexpected event happens - the meeting room's entrance has been locked by an anonymous member and the key is missing...
Our read: Garage (1979) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · satire entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / satire, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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How Garage feels to watch.
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“You want sharp Soviet satire of ordinary citizens trapped in a corrupt bureaucratic meeting.”
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