Synopsis
The volatile intersections of contemporary Moscow and the intimate lives of five people.
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Cast
- Mikhail EfremovVladimir
- Yuriy StoyanovValery
- Aleksey SerebryakovAnton
- Evgenia BrikKatya
- Alena BabenkoMariya
- Viktor VerzhbitskiyGorbunov
- Oleg DolinIlya
- Tamara SpirichevaVera
- Anatoly KhropovRoman
- Anastasiya ShalonkoLera
Recommendations
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The Film Stage
O’Reilly has crafted a meticulously drawn tapestry of universal human themes within a setting that’s as unique as it is familiar. - 60
Village Voice
Moscow Never Sleeps is ambitious to a fault. While O’Reilly flexes an ability to tie together several narratives, he introduces so many characters that some of their stories must fall by the wayside. It’s a shame, because that muddles the more interesting vignettes. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Although the film’s overstuffed, overpopulated storyline proves only sporadically interesting, it’s notable for at least providing an alternative view of a city more commonly associated with wintry gloom, corruption and heavy drinking. - 50
The New York Times
Absent fathers and mothers, building bridges with children — Moscow Never Sleeps could easily have unfolded in a much darker register. That it doesn’t is both refreshing and deflating. - 50
Variety
The various story currents move swiftly but don’t run particularly deep, so the film works better as a kind of best-foot-forward overview of modern urban Russia — “Moscow, I Love You” — than it does as a multi-stranded human drama. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Moscow Never Sleeps is well made but stilted, following too many characters to give any their due. - 50
Washington Post
O’Reilly’s ambitions notwithstanding, “Moscow” is uneven because of the inescapable nature of such interlocking narratives: some land better than others.
