Lady with the Dog (1960)

Touches You

Captivating movie !

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

gentle, fragile, delicate. Tchekov spirit in an impressive adaptation of a very well short story. a show of nuances in which Iya Savvina is fabulous. for the measure of gestures, for the force of words, for the translation of a profound drama without any cure or limit. a film of nuances about shadow of happiness. a man, a woman, a husband, a wife, Ialta. and few walks. entire flavor of a time is recreated. entire charm of a great writer creation is exposed in magnificent mode. like an old song," Dama s sobachkoj " is a kind of time travel. in heart of lost world. in middle of bitter circle. in fact, only continuous present far from every mask.

I enjoyed this beautifully filmed tale of forbidden love in Yalta.What made the movie for me was the performance of Aleksey Batalov as Dimitri. I never tired of looking at his face. The sensitivity Batalov showed in almost every scene made him unusual yet believable.It was interesting to read on Wikipedia that the beautiful Iva Savvina wasn't even a professional actress until her breakout performance in this role. Her neurotic portrayal was credible but not nearly as interesting.The scenes in Yalta were far better than the rest of the film. I felt the story descended into something more conventional afterward, with Batalov pining for the excitement he had experienced during a short respite from his marriage of convenience.I found the somewhat ambiguous ending to be rather flat. So they'll try to figure something out. OK. The denouement didn't live up to the rest of the film but this was still well worth watching.

THE LADY … is an exquisite and flawless piece of superior art; ah, you admirer of cinema, if you fall in love with such movies do not expect, pray you, to find many others alike. It's a movie of flawless taste—not even one single false note! On the contrary, the most delicious and nuanced and fluent harmony …. Oh, such movies disgust you of anything else—now, think only if it's wise and truly advisable ….It's also the simplest of movies, about love and life; a white flame. Only the simplest and very best things—nothing peculiar, strident or whimsical.This is the lightest art; the difficulty of its achievement is proved by the rarity of such masterpieces. Heifitz did not win a truly outstanding celebrity; yet, he should have had.

This movie ranks among the masterpieces of Soviet film art. Really everything is good here: the acting, the shots, the timing, the scenery and its tale. Taken from a very famous short story by Chekhov, one of Russia's greatest writers. 'Dama s sobachkoj' reflects its very Russian character well: infinite boredom, caused by life in an endlessly large country with a harsh climate and a very monotonuous landscape.The plot of this movie is timed at the end of the 19th century, an era when in Europe divorce was socially disastrous for your life, status and career. For this reason the lovers Sergueevna and Gourov cannot get together, thus being forced to consider in full the fate of their unhappy marriages and their missed chances in life.It will not surprise you that the pace of this movie is slow. Maybe too slow for Western taste, even back in 1960. Anyway, its slowness provides you with plenty of opportunity to enjoy the magnificent shots from this very Russian movie.