2008 · musical · drama · historical
Hipsters
Directed by Valery Todorovsky2h 10m2008
In this hit Russian musical, a group of friends flaunts Soviet authority in 1950s Moscow by embracing jazz. When Communist Mels falls for Polly, a free-spirited jazz fan, he risks losing his party membership by associating with her rebellious crew.
Our read: Hipsters (2008) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive musical · drama · historical entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured musical / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
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