Pryachsya (2011)

Pryachsya (2011). Pryachsya: Directed by Johnny O'Reilly. With Pyotr Logachev, Vladimir Gusev, Sergey Garmash, Aleksey Guskov. Two veteran meteorologists spend their days on a remote mountain weather station, accompanied by a young boy working as a cook. Their every-day lifestyle, made of creating matchstick models on one side, researching the big-foot myth on the other, and the boy's constant need to find places for hiding is briefly interrupted by a visit from two tourists: husband and his young wife – traveling to visit a cave near the weather station, so they'd mark their five year anniversary. Their arrival is the primer for an unknown series of events that puts an experienced inspector and his young colleague where we find them at the beginning of the movie: on a deserted weather station, where everyone seems to have vanished into thin air. The hank slowly unrolls as viewer discovers the truth behind everything, step by step, until the final loop of a long story line unravels and present him the final surprise.

“I really enjoyed this film and yet I donu0026#39;t know why I chose to watch it. Subtitled films I generally avoid. If I had the concentration to read thatu0026#39;s what I would be doing. This is the first Russian film Iu0026#39;ve watched. It has elements I enjoy, such as a bleak setting, and old wrongs being put right. The back story of the main character Romansh – as named in the English subtitles – is what made the story work for me. I found the resolution of his story very satisfying. Maybe Iu0026#39;ll watch more subtitled films now. A solid 7 out of 10.”