About Love

About Love

2017 · 95 min · RU · 5.5 (33 votes)
Dir. Vladimir Bortko · Starring Anna Chipovskaya, Aleksey Chadov, Dmitriy Pevtsov, Aleksandr Lykov, Mariya Mironova, Pyotr Zhuravlyov

All happy families are happy alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

RomanceDramaThriller

Beautiful Nina lives happily married, as she saw it, with intelligent Alexandr, professor of Sinology. But the debt for the mortgage begins to disturb the relationship of spouses. One day she meets Sergey, the head of the bank where her husband has debt, and so begins their passionate relationships. The story of the relationship with married Sergey hardly promises happiness, but Nina realizes that for the first time she feels true love.

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A slow-burn exploration of forbidden desire and its crushing weight. This film feels like a deep sigh, steeped in the bittersweet ache of love found and lost, set against a backdrop of quiet desperation and grand romantic gestures.

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