VODKA LEMON (Vodka Leyműn)
Director: Hiner Saleem
Cast: Romen Avinian, Lala Sarkissian, Ivan Franek
France-Italy-Switzerland-Armenia 2003 / 90m / Armenian, Kurdish with English subtitles / PG
"Hiner Saleem's gentle tragi-comedy tells of Hamo, an aging widower, who finds love in, of all places, a cemetery. But it's also the story of his tiny Kurdish village – a remote, snowbound outpost where the real and the surreal agreeably co-exist. With his wife in the ground, his only hope rests in an adult son who has immigrated to France. Saleem surrounds his protagonists with a colourful gallery of eccentrics. The real star, though, is the rugged, mountainous landscape: a winter wonderland that will have you blinking in chilly awe. The marvel is that Saleem finds human empathy and alcohol-fuelled bonhomie flourishing in such a forbidding and melancholy wilderness.” (BBCi Films)
I saw this film and all I can say-Wow! See it! Pretty minimalistic style and yet less is more applies here!Very powerful film.Shot in Armenia
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Armat
, Nov 19 2007 11:55 AM
5 replies to this topic
#1
Posted 19 November 2007 - 11:55 AM
#2
Posted 19 November 2007 - 08:47 PM
So it takes a Kurd to make a good Armenian movie these days...
#3
Posted 22 November 2007 - 05:59 PM
I found a download link for it. It says that it was professionally translated into Russian. Sorry non-Russian speakers
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http://upload.com.ua/get/899974635
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Edited by Avo47, 22 November 2007 - 06:00 PM.
#4
Posted 23 November 2007 - 12:34 AM
Correction, the language is mixed. Armenian-Russian-Kurdish/yezdi in that order. A lot of Armenian actors. Its humorous and at the same time tragic.
#5
Posted 24 December 2007 - 07:14 PM
I think the director was inspired by Kusturica and the beginning was of the movie was a good knock-off of his style. But in general I did not like the movie.
#6
Posted 26 December 2007 - 01:16 PM
I had the same impression.It´s not a bad movie but it seems to cater to a certain type of diasporan that has very few opportunities to see a semi-intelectualized approach to life in Armenia, even if throught the eyes of a Kurd.
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