However, Todorovsky had admired the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers-Gene Kelly musicals since his student days and had long wanted to try his hand at the genre. Serguei Alex. Gugino displays a depth and range of expression that I cannot imagine any other actress achieving with such blazing honesty and wrenching truth. While valuing authenticity, spontaneity, natural harshness, and uncompromising attitudes, Russian directors in this period often create and operate within abstract environments in which to explore social concerns in the symbolic mode. As a seventeen-year-old in the capital, she similarly speeds along streets, enabling Melikian to feature, with an economy of means, not only sundry individuals and groups going about their business, but also the numerous advertisements and posters she passes on route.
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