Betrayal (2012)

Such a frustrating disappointment

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

a film like exploration of ideas. about love, the other, reflection of yourself in the near person. need of revenge and stability and happiness. beautiful. interesting. but a kind of iceberg. because all is reduced at suggestion. and the tradition of Russian meditation about the great themes of life is a not small resource in this sense. the film has all for be an admirable work - cinematography, actors, dialogues. but the story in real and profound sense is missing. and, out of doubt, for a part of public this could be a good thing. because it is a Russian film. so... different. but only for a part of public.

two stories who becomes one. characters as sketches. symbols, impression of project, absence of roots for events, different pieces and the duty of viewer to create a puzzle. basic virtue - atmosphere to gives to it the status of interesting movie.the desire to create archetypes for usual case . Franziska Petri and Dejan Lilic are perfect choices for lead roles but the space for give force, content to characters is very small. a film about impossibility of choices. and the fragility of new beginnings. the need of the other. and the frame of a special form of faith. good intentions. and the lines of a delicate , precise definition of a small world. a form of parable.

'Betrayal' is a Russian production about a man who goes to the doctor for a check-up, only to be told by her that her husband is having an affair with his wife. This starts a relationship between the two that endures for several years. At first the relationship is not sexual - something I really appreciated in that it went against my jaded expectations - but one of comrades-in-arms, almost, as the doctor takes the man to the various places the adulterous couple meet: the park bench, the statue, the hotel room.The film is filled with unanswered questions, eg: what was the point of the traffic accident; did the man really commit the film's major crime; how did the person found dead at the end of the film die? Normally that sort of thing could annoy me, but not here: this is a slow-moving but engrossing film, and the lead actress, Franziska Petri, is absolutely stunning.

Long, confusing, sometimes sexy but unsatisfying Ruskie infidelity drama.In an attention getting opening, Lilic shows up for a heart check with fetching Dr. Petri, who announces that their spouses are having an affair, before a SUV mows down a bus stop behind still confused Lilic, launching a complicated sequence of events, where reality and metaphor mix without sufficient indicators.Blue tinged colour & 'Scope images are occasionally striking but the piece is confusing and uninvolving. At nearly two hours, it outlasts its value as drama or guessing game.