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Best movie ever!

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

I hope that I can make you feel the humble feeling that is lurking from that movie, that can distance you from the noise and the lack of orientation, that make you feel comfortable and feel the good behind which is the true love.Although his life is quite, the connections with the people for Tolstoy are dynamic. What is happening to them is really interesting to him and gives him strength. Trying to give balance to what is happening to him, he follows his heart which he has given to everyone he knew. Spread the love one every parallel in your life like a cobweb and give it to everyone and everything, he is saying. But I know this from somewhere else.This time I write because I also want to share something. Why I know this from somewhere else? Is it normal to you when your cats, came after a big change in your life, put off the shelf several times a book about Lev Tolstoy? So many times that is easier for you to read that book instead of putting it back again? I doubt that. And like it is written in this book – the great writer often make chance to look like necessity, following the good side of his curiosity. I do so too.I have to check what is his astrological sign. And I can not miss saying the name of Mikhail Bulgakov, the metaphor of the train, the last stop and the number of the last train 6009 – the abyss (one for him and one for her) staying between life and man that his true love is away.http://vihrenmitevmovies.blogspot.com/

A movie about the latter years of War And Peace scribe Leo Tolstoy may not sound like the most tantilizing of prospects, but this blows all your expectations out of the water by being both intelligent and moving. The spotlight is on a young writer who is given the job of committing Tolstoy's ideals to paper, so future generations may be inspired by his philosophies. While at Leo's mansion, he finds himself caught up in an argument between Tolstoy's friends, wife and their children about who gets the inheritance after he croaks. Will it be left to his nearest and dearest, or pass on to a shady bunch of men who swear to spend it to further Tolstoy's memory... Honest, guv. The young author also falls in love with a servant girl, who challenges his views on love and fidelity. And all he wanted to do was scribble a bit with his feather on parchment. Complications, complications...Central to the success of this work is the tempestuous relationship between Tolstoy and his wife. They have their ups and downs, but there's no doubt that they truly love one another and separately would not function at all. Played brilliantly by Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer, their marriage is a complex one with a perplexity rarely seen on screen... and that's what makes it so satisfying. The rest of the cast have their moments in the sun too... each one is a cog in the machine, as opposed to spare parts. And is it just me, or did people seem much smarter back then? Here, they ruminate over the meaning of life and your legacy in history... Nowadays, it's more who'll appear in the Big Brother house and whether an obscure gesture on a football pitch is racist or not. So much for progress... 7/10

It's around 1910 and the world-famous novelist and spiritual anarchist, the ancient Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), is living in a mansion with his wife, children, and a few of his followers. He ought to be happy but in fact what we see is a good-natured but still tortured Tolstoy. Here he is, living like a Roman emperor, while his own philosophy calls for allegiance only to God and peace, not worldly goods, the state, the Church, or self aggrandizement.Not only that, but his Tolstoyan followers want him to relinquish all his copyrights so that his work becomes the property of the people. It makes a certain sense to Tolstoy, but not to his wife Sonya (Helen Mirren). His work is worth more than a million rubles and she wants the money. There's no doubt they love each other but the moral evolution has driven them apart. Tolstoy writes her a loving letter and then leaves for a life of tranquility and solitude in the boondocks. He never quite makes it.Helen Mirren, as the grasping bourgeois who once helped her husband and edited his works, is good, as usual. She can play just about anything by now except maybe a little girl. But it's probably Christopher Plummer's finest performance.There is a scene in which Mirren has called him back home from a trip, claiming to be very ill. She's not. She's just jealous of the attention he gets wherever he goes. Plummer, with his great gray beard preceding him, enters the bedroom to find her sitting up playfully in the sick bed, teasing him about the furious love making of their earlier years, the way she used to play a chicken and he was a rooster. She bounces around cheerfully, full of glee and guile, her lie having been forgotten, and she begins to cluck, begging him to crow the way he used to. Plummer comes up with about the most convincing display of reluctant compliance that I've ever seen, at first brushing her requests aside, then finally yielding, crowing loudly, and jumping onto the bed with Mirren. It's an exquisite scene -- funny, but with disturbing undertones.The rest of the cast are fine. Paul Giamatti, a versatile actor, is very good as the Tolstoyan enthusiast grimly determined to see the fulfillment of the old man's dream. James McAvoy is the young, innocent secretary whose burden it is to be a witness and a marriage counselor in a disintegrating household. His girl friend, who looks splendid in the nude, is Kerry Condon. She's cute and dimpled. She purses her lips and tilts her head in an enchanting manner, and she introduces him to some worldly delights that, as a Tolstoyan ascetic, he had denied himself.The film was shot in Germany and Russia but, man, the photography and location shooting are convincingly Russian. The forests are of larch interspersed among evergreens, and the air is alive with mosquitoes bred in the marshland. The musical score is sparse and appropriate. The film may bore some people. Nobody's head gets wrenched off. But the central issue -- collectivism versus individualism -- is timeless. Nice job.

I don't see what the point of making this movie was. It was boring and about an uninteresting writer. The 2 lead actors are good, but they aren't given much to do. Christopher Plummer plays famed writer Tolstoy and Helen Mirren is his wife, Sofya. They have been married nearly 50 years and love each other but also fight a lot. Sofya gets carried away and has a lot of emotional fights with her husband. She is worried that Vladamir, Tolstoy's friend, will try to steel the rights to his books once he dies. She's always talking about Vladamir trying to get the will changed. As a side plot, Vladmair hires Valentin to be Tolstoy's assistant, and report back to him everything that happens at home. Valentin starts an affair, she leaves, not much else with that story line.The ending is basically the last days of Tolstoy and how his wife really loves him.FINAL VERDICT: don't waste your time