Silver Skates
1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.
- Released: 2020-12-10
- Runtime: 136 minutes
- Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Stars: Fedor Fedotov, Sonia Priss, Aleksey Guskov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Severija Janušauskaitė, Kirill Zaytsev, Yuriy Borisov, Aleksandra Revenko, Timofey Tribuntsev, Sergey Koltakov, Yan Reshetnikov, Denis Lavant, Cathy Belton, Vasily Kopeikin, Vera Pleshanova, Mikhail Shelomentsev, Dmitry Lysenkov, Arkadiy Koval, Dmitriy Murashev, Valeriy Kukhareshin, Sergey Barkovsky, Denis Pyanov, Elena Rufanova, Sergey Zamorev, Evgeniy Kuzmin, Maxim Khanzhov, Kirill Frolov, Denis Kozinets, Anton Pulit, Aleksey Simonov, Sergey Trifonov, Игорь Павлов, Kirill Baloban, Yakov Petrov, Artyom Leshchik, Valery Smekalov, Tatyana Polonskaya, Egor Bakulin, Yana Pronina, Kirill Yakushenko
- Director: Mikhail Lokshin
Comments
- jamesjustice-92 - 4 June 2024
Petersburg on ice
I had really high hopes for this one because I met both Cathy Belton and Alexey Guskov when they were making this movie in 2019 in Saint Petersburg. Kathy herself told me it was a beautiful picture and she was so happy to be involved in this production - well the picture was beautiful. If you look through the visible green screen and the fact that the movie was shot on a handful of locations, interchanging in between the scenes - and most of the routes made absolutely no sense, as they were jumping down from one street to the completely distant from it in a manner of seconds but let's just say it's art, and it's not supposed to make sense this way because we, as viewers, are shown all the beautiful places of Saint Petersburg, all seven of them, replayed in a different order. Other than the locations and (I have to admit) gorgeous musical score and some of the performances that were OK at best there's really not much left to say about the movie itself. Forgettable characters with no lively strength in them, no depth, no authenticity, no relatability and in some even no value as a character and to top it all is the screenplay which is terribly weak, unoriginal in every sense of the word and nonsensical. I tried to find some grains of wisdom or mere intrigue in the narrative but just couldn't find any. Yet again, like most of the movies nowadays, behind a pretty picture there's just another green screen of blank piece of paper with nothing on it. - kkutsova - 19 January 2022
Skates of love
The film "Silver Skates", of course, is not a masterpiece, which I will watch and re-watch, but once it was interesting, touching and heartwarming in some places, silly and ridiculous in others, completely implausible in others... The film deserves four points, one viewing, of course, but it lacked something, probably, soulfulness...
The film leaves a couple of phrases in my memory, one of which is in the title of this review, and the other is this - "I don't know what I love more: your generosity or your wisdom"...
