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0001 10:00:26:22 10:00:29:17 42 When Tolstoy Was Working 0002 10 0001 10:00:26:22 10:00:29:17 42 When Tolstoy was working 0002 10:00:29:23 10:00:33:04 49 on one of his books, The Kreutzer Sonata, 0003 10:00:33:10 10:00:37:18 65 or perhaps Anna Karenina, 0004 10:00:38:02 10:00:39:04 16 whatever, 0005 10:00:39:10 10:00:41:22 37 he said this: 0006 10:00:42:04 10:00:45:17 53 "All novels end with a wedding. 0007 10:00:47:09 10:00:50:13 47 "It would be good if someone were to write one 0008 10:00:50:17 10:00:53:00 35 "on life after the wedding." 0009 10:01:08:00 10:01:09:14 23 Get out! 0010 10:01:09:18 10:01:12:24 49 - It's over, d'you get it? - I have the right to be here! 0011 10:01:13:03 10:01:15:24 43 Yeah, you're the owner. You'll get your share. 0012 10:01:26:01 10:01:27:00 14 Shit. 0013 10:01:28:19 10:01:29:24 18 Fuck it. 0014 10:01:30:24 10:01:32:11 22 The bastard. 0015 10:01:32:23 10:01:35:21 44 They've been together 12, 13 years. 0016 10:01:36:00 10:01:39:06 49 He was her first lover. 0017 10:01:39:13 10:01:42:02 38 He's her whole life. 0018 10:01:42:16 10:01:43:24 20 All of a sudden, 0019 10:01:44:03 10:01:47:24 58 she finds out he's leading a double life. 0020 10:01:48:07 10:01:51:11 47 May he decided to tell her. 0021 10:01:51:18 10:01:53:20 31 Or she found out by herself. 0022 10:01:54:03 10:01:57:15 52 And suddenly, her life collapses. 0023 10:02:01:17 10:02:05:13 58 Loveless is Andrey Zvyagintsev's fifth movie. 0024 10:02:06:14 10:02:09:11 43 A family tragedy set in today's Moscow. 0025 10:02:12:01 10:02:16:05 62 Boris is a salesman. His wife Zhenya runs a hair salon. 0026 10:02:16:09 10:02:18:21 37 They belong to the Russian middle-class. 0027 10:02:20:06 10:02:22:17 37 The couple is divorcing and hate each other. 0028 10:02:25:18 10:02:29:19 61 Their 12-year-old son, Alyosha, is suffering in silence. 0029 10:02:31:02 10:02:32:17 24 I don't want any more. 0030 10:02:32:24 10:02:34:23 29 Finish it, we can't waste it. 0031 10:02:37:01 10:02:39:07 34 But I don't want any more. 0032 10:02:42:14 10:02:44:01 22 Drink your hot chocolate. 0033 10:02:45:00 10:02:47:09 35 Why are you all wimpy? Are you sick? 0034 10:02:48:04 10:02:49:19 24 I'm not a wimp. 0035 10:02:51:12 10:02:53:02 24 OK then, leave it. 0036 10:02:54:20 10:02:56:08 23 No thank-you? 0037 10:02:59:00 10:03:01:23 44 She feels no love for the son she didn't want. 0038 10:03:02:02 10:03:04:19 40 She feels no love for her husband. 0039 10:03:05:10 10:03:08:21 52 Their relationship is dead. 0040 10:03:09:11 10:03:13:05 56 Her mother didn't love her, and she can't love either. 0041 10:03:13:09 10:03:16:19 51 There's no love in her life and she misses that. 0042 10:03:17:09 10:03:19:13 32 We discover the characters 0043 10:03:19:17 10:03:22:23 49 at a point in their relationship where lines have been crossed. 0044 10:03:23:02 10:03:24:22 27 They're at a point of no-return. 0045 10:03:25:03 10:03:29:09 64 It's a very difficult story and what makes things worse is, 0046 10:03:29:15 10:03:33:06 55 they have a child who suddenly becomes 0047 10:03:33:21 10:03:36:15 41 an obstacle, an inconvenience, a burden. 0048 10:03:38:18 10:03:40:07 23 And these two adults 0049 10:03:40:11 10:03:44:03 55 don't know how to get rid of this burden, 0050 10:03:44:07 10:03:46:04 28 how to get round this obstacle. 0051 10:03:46:14 10:03:48:13 29 And as the story unfolds, 0052 10:03:48:17 10:03:51:22 48 the child becomes a victim. 0053 10:03:55:10 10:03:57:16 34 husband and wife lead double lives. 0054 10:03:57:20 10:04:00:24 47 Boris with another woman who's pregnant by him. 0055 10:04:02:04 10:04:05:07 47 And Zhenya with a rich man who's very much in love. 0056 10:04:07:12 10:04:09:22 36 It's you who taught me what love is. 0057 10:04:12:22 10:04:14:13 25 I didn't love my husband. 0058 10:04:16:14 10:04:18:13 29 And he was my first. 0059 10:04:20:14 10:04:23:06 40 I got pregnant without wanting it. 0060 10:04:26:00 10:04:28:12 37 He was so happy, he wanted us to marry. 0061 10:04:29:12 10:04:31:18 34 "Everything'll be fine, we're together." 0062 10:04:33:05 10:04:34:20 24 I didn't want to. 0063 10:04:37:20 10:04:39:11 25 I was scared. 0064 10:04:43:13 10:04:46:05 40 Scared of aborting, scared of keeping it. 0065 10:04:48:01 10:04:52:07 64 I don't want people to see me as someone 0066 10:04:52:12 10:04:55:13 46 who moralizes and tells them: 0067 10:04:55:18 10:04:57:19 31 "This is no way to live!" 0068 10:04:58:00 10:04:59:21 28 But I can't help it. 0069 10:05:00:01 10:05:02:15 38 What touches me, what moves me, 0070 10:05:02:20 10:05:07:07 67 what makes my heart beat faster, 0071 10:05:07:13 10:05:13:09 88 are stories that are tragic, troubling, uncomfortable. 0072 10:05:14:05 10:05:18:09 62 It's those stories that tell us most 0073 10:05:18:14 10:05:20:22 35 about the human condition. 0074 10:05:21:19 10:05:23:14 27 Much more... 0075 10:05:24:00 10:05:26:22 43 than reassuring, entertaining little tales 0076 10:05:28:21 10:05:31:10 38 on the so-called pride of being human. 0077 10:05:31:18 10:05:34:10 40 I like pathos. Forgive me for that. 0078 10:05:34:15 10:05:36:08 26 I'm sorry. 0079 10:05:42:17 10:05:47:02 66 One day, Alyosha, the forgotten child, doesn't come home from school. 0080 10:05:48:10 10:05:50:03 26 As they search for him, 0081 10:05:50:07 10:05:54:13 64 Zhenya and Boris set off on a painful journey towards themselves. 0082 10:05:55:11 10:05:58:18 49 To me, the most important idea behind the movie 0083 10:05:58:24 10:06:02:01 46 goes beyond the story of this particular family. 0084 10:06:02:06 10:06:04:15 35 It touches on something more general. 0085 10:06:04:21 10:06:07:01 33 It's a depiction 0086 10:06:07:11 10:06:10:08 43 of a lack of love in a family, 0087 10:06:10:12 10:06:12:05 26 in life, 0088 10:06:12:10 10:06:15:05 42 and on how to deal with that. 0089 10:06:16:09 10:06:19:10 46 Is it possible to live a loveless life? 0090 10:06:20:05 10:06:22:14 35 It's set in Russia 0091 10:06:22:19 10:06:25:06 37 and the characters have Russian names. 0092 10:06:25:12 10:06:28:01 38 But that's because it was shot in Russia, 0093 10:06:28:06 10:06:31:01 42 the director's Russian, and we all live here. 0094 10:06:31:06 10:06:32:12 19 But in fact, 0095 10:06:32:17 10:06:35:22 48 everyone can see their own country in it. 0096 10:06:36:08 10:06:40:10 61 I think a story like this can happen anywhere. 0097 10:06:45:17 10:06:50:04 67 Andrey Zvyagintsev sets this universal tale in his homeland.
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