2007 · drama · romance · fantasy
Mermaid
Directed by Anna Melikyan1h 55m2007
The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true. She must reconcile this belief with reality when, as a young woman, she journeys to Moscow and grapples with love, modernity and materialism.
Our read: Mermaid (2007) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive drama · romance · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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