The Irony of Fate. The Continuation
- warm
- brisk
- intimate
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Thirty years have passed since Zhenya and Nadya met—they broke up, and Nadya moved to Leningrad. The friends still go to the bathhouse, and now they are joined by Konstantin, Zhenya's son. Uncle Pasha and Uncle Sasha persuade Kostya to arrange a New Year's miracle for his father and send him to St. Petersburg. Nadya's daughter lives at that very address, and on the same day, her fiancé, Irakli, is planning to propose to her.
Our read · The Irony of Fate. The Continuation (2007) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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