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On November 24, the film “Honest Divorce 2” was released in wide release – this is a continuation of last year’s hit about stand-up comedian Uncle Genya from Chelyabinsk and his random girlfriend Milana, who was a woman with reduced social responsibility, but it turned out that responsibility, creativity and charm are her hidden virtues that helped to realize first Gene, and then Milan herself.
“You will sing with me!” – the slogan of the second part – hints to the audience that the film will be musical. And also New Year’s. Since the new story of Gena and Milana, who have strengthened and legitimized their relationship, unfolds on New Year’s Eve, when we are all waiting for the fulfillment of our cherished desires, and for some they really come true, especially if a loving person tries a little. In “Honest Divorce 2”, Gena tries her best to make Milana overcome her fear of the stage and the microphone and sing. After all, she dreamed of being a singer all her life.
On the occasion of the release of the film, the actress of the film, the performer of one of the roles, Irina Bezryadnova, remembered her favorite films about the New Year, songs and love especially for HELLO.RU.
“Real Love” (Love Actually), 2003
I think that there is no person in the world who would not include this film in the top 5 of their favorite Christmas stories. I review it every year and every time I am filled with happiness and warmth. And when Bill Nighy sings “Christmas Is All Around,” I imagine myself as his backup dancer.
This film is a real holiday magic and magic. And despite the fact that this seems to be a comedy rom-com, this is a deep and sad film that love is not only a romantic date against the backdrop of a Christmas tree, but also an ordeal, that love is important in a variety of circumstances, including very heavy. This film is not so much about love, but about support and the ability to understand each other. And that not even mutual love can be happy.
I think that every viewer in this film has a favorite short story. Mine is about the prime minister and his assistant, especially the scene where Hugh Grant says to Martina McCutchon:
I am the Prime Minister, I can order your boyfriend to be killed.
“Happy New Year, moms!”, 2012
This is a Russian collection of touching New Year’s stories. The whole almanac is permeated with love for mothers, and also mothers for children. One of the brightest short stories for me is “Seeing Paris, and …”, which tells how the son (Pavel Volya) fulfills the dream of his mother (Irina Rozanova is one of my favorite actresses) to visit Paris and even see Alain Delon. The most important one is about how the heroes of Lisa Boyarskaya and Maxim Matveev adopt a child. And the most humanistic one is about how an adult son (Viktor Vasiliev) tells his mother that he is a businessman, embarrassed to admit that he is in fact a stripper, and his mother, having accidentally found out the truth, comes to his show, sees how the son dances with wings and says that he is an angel.
Perhaps this almanac is too sentimental, but in the pre-holiday time you don’t want gloomy dramas at all, but “Happy New Year, Mom!” made in order to be touched, shed a tear and call mom. By the way, November 26 is Mother’s Day – I advise you to reconsider.
“Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!”, 1975
Yes, learned by heart, yes, already bored, yes, familiar, like Olivier, but still a favorite New Year’s hit. By and large, unpretentious Soviet rom-com rises to poetic heights as soon as Nadia and Zhenya pick up a guitar and begin to sing. Songs to poems by prominent poets – Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, Yevtushenko, Akhmadulina – and the voices of the then little-known Alla Pugacheva and Sergei Nikitin reveal the characters’ characters and add notes of sadness to anecdotal situations. And today (and “The Irony of Fate” is almost 50 years old) we are celebrating the New Year with her not to watch how the men get drunk in the bathhouse or stand under the shower in a coat, but precisely for the sake of this magical musical poetry.
The whole country knows these songs by heart, women perform at home to the guitar “I like that you are not sick of me”, men – “I asked the ash tree.” I like the complex (you can’t sing it in karaoke) Tsvetaeva’s “I bless you” most of all. And a recent amazing discovery for me was that the only song that appeared a few years before the film is a hit about wagons. And that Vladimir Vysotsky performed it.
“Edward Scissorhands”, 1990
Great fantasy story by Tim Burton! It’s not a New Year’s movie, but it does have one of the best New Year’s Eve scenes in movie history – when Edward (played brilliantly by Johnny Depp) carves ice sculptures while Winona Ryder dances to Danny Elfman’s music.
Tim Burton is a great master of creating magical worlds. His films are dark and sometimes scary, even the Christmas theme of “Edward” is permeated with an atmosphere of horror. But they are still filled with beauty. Most poignant quote from the movie:
And now I will know that if it is fluffy snow, it means that Edward is carving beautiful figures, figures of indescribable beauty – like his soul.
“Vacation on exchange” (The Holiday), 2006
One of my favorite romantic Christmas comedies. British journalist Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet) who works author of the wedding column in the Daily Telegraph, just dumped by a colleague-boyfriend who, in the middle of a New Year’s corporate party, introduced another girl to employees as a bride. At the same time, an American producer (Cameron Diaz) found out that her partner was cheating on her with a young lady.
Friends in misfortune spontaneously meet on the Internet and agree to change houses during the winter holidays. As a result, an Englishwoman gets a luxurious mansion and a warm Californian climate, and an American woman gets a cozy cottage 40 minutes drive from noisy London, snow and right-hand traffic. But on the very first night, she appears … the hero performed by Jude Law, so it doesn’t matter how many square meters you have.
The Englishwoman “gets” Jack Black, who plays a Hollywood film composer who hums the music from Gone with the Wind. And the whole story is so funny, romantic and charming that you want to immediately change housing with someone – even in London, even in Los Angeles.
Source: Hellomagazine
Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
