Monday, April 29, 2013
REBELS
Today's film was the wonderful, fantastic Russian musical
I don't know how I missed this but I am glad that I did not.
This is from my time. The Fifties. In Russia. A severely limited society.
It is about the "kids" who built an alternative life style at that time. Hipsters. A kind of over the top cartoon of their idea of American jazz and the people who danced to it.
The music is outstanding and the story is interesting enough to keep the music afloat.
The predominant sound in the beginning is "big band" and then it evolves into a kind of jazz/rock.
The young stars perfectly capture the repressed life of party members, one of whom, Mels (Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin) converts and becomes a singer and saxophone player.
Not the party line at all.
People go to jail for this kind of thing.
There is a lot of music. There is sex of the kind that has love attached. There is a lot of great movie stuff, cinematography, sets, costumes. Perfect.
I enjoyed it very much and cried at the end.
I will give it a 4 or maybe a five if I decide to buy the disc. Out of Netflix5.
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