You I Love ( Ya lyublyu tebya )

You I Love (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Ya lyublyu tebya
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Russian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
83 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Behind the scenes
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
Russia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Olga Stolpovskaja
Dmitry Troitsky

Written By:
Olga Stolpovskaja
Dmitry Troitsky
Alisa Tanskaya

Actors:
Damir Badmaev ..... Uloomji
Lyubov Tolkalina ..... Vera Kirillova
Evgeny Koryakovsky ..... Timofei Pechorin
Nina Agapova ..... Elderly Neighbor
Irina Grineva ..... Make-Up Girl
Anatoly Mankhadykov ..... Uloomji's Father
Valentina Mankhadykova ..... Uloomji's Mother
Yuri Sherstnyov ..... Watchman at the Zoo
Victor Shevidov ..... Uncle Vanya
Alisa Tanskaya ..... Woman, discussing Vera
Mihail Tarabukin ..... Lyolik
Emanuel Michael Vaganda ..... John
Alexander Vartanov ..... Voice of a radio DJ

Synopsis:

Vera and Tim are successful young professionals living fast-paced lives in ultra-modern Moscow. Their lives crackle with the capitalist energy of excess, anxiety, consumption, and stress- and they are in love. Everything changes one night when Tim accidentally drives his car into Uloomji, a young Kalmyk day worker. (The Kalmyks are a semi-nomadic people of Mongolian decent.) The two men begin a torrid affair that involves howling and knocking over a lot of furniture. Tim is attracted to Uloomji's exotic demeanor and liberated by his impulsiveness and lack of inhibition. To Uloomji, Tim embodies a kind of class and refinement he sees only in magazines. Vera struggles to comprehend their bond and her boyfriend's erratic behavior. She is dragged reluctantly into a bizarre love triangle. Before long, all three lives unravel, exemplified by a visit to a Buddhist healer, a three-way in the bathroom of a gay bar, a faked death and a kidnapping.

With its matter-of-fact, almost lighthearted depiction of open sexuality and homosexuality in modernized Moscow, You I Love may be culturally groundbreaking in Russian cinema, but out of that context, it's little more than a comedy-drama of shorthand emotions and unlikely relationships.

On their first anniversary, Vera comes home to discover her boyfriend Tim in bed with another man.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 03 October, 2006.

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