Кикс (1992)

What will remain of it? Smoke like that, don't respond like that, much less with admiration, don't wink like that, never look for the lighter, Lenchik repeats... This extravagant reconstruction of a dark performing artist progressively supplants the Zhanna Palvskaya who was rescued from her miserable life. life as a low-class hairdresser, as well as being the lover of a lying and adulterous fop, Lebushka; but this is what I talk about when I want a plot to go against the grain of the vehicular meaning of commercial cinema; because although it is true that the story follows the same steps of the discovery of musical and artistic stars, the film uses a garish frosted cinematography, in addition to a battery of peculiar sounds and songs that keep a certain distance from the avant-garde, at least enough, but not the excessive one that is unintelligible; by the way, his photograph is perfectly framed, Machilskiy is not kidding. And what's in the rehearsal scene? "My sister night, don't take me away..." she sings, half a league away from the mind, the strides of narrative effectiveness press the psychology of the character, of the woman who is loading herself with poses like a computer downloads Apps.;And Klosha reiterates: "А манекенщица — это пародия на настоящую женщину!" (And a model is a parody of a real woman!) But the uncompromising paraphernalia with which she tried to surround herself and provide herself as an artist has exceeded the psychological and human limits of the woman of flesh and blood. Finding the appropriate mask for the show, the contortion due to the delight of the public, Zhanna lost her way until, in front of the mirror, she did not recognize herself and spoke, she invited herself to the frivolous freedom of which she never knew how. became so addicted, with the series of small dramatic personality changes. The last minutes are of atrocious psychiatric turbulence because the nervous breakdown shows that everything has been in vain and therefore, at the funeral, she in the car looks with bitter sadness at Lenchik and tells him that she is Zhanna again, tearing off her wig. , the last fetish of the symbol of fame that never reached the level of drug syringes and the cursed subjection to mental stress.