This week I've been watching russian cinema.

At Soviet period till 90s our cinema generally was devoted to patriotism, history or it was comedies with morals and of course with elements of Soviet system such as five-year plans, fathfullness to government and etc.

And in my opinion the most provocative was movie "Dog's heart" (by Mikhail Bulgakov novel), 1988. Mockery at system and time, government and social phenomenas. Still Bulgakov is a genious among all the russian writers ever!

Nowadays russian cinema is living reburth, it has 2 branches - stupid meaningless films (like american comedies) for watching just 1 time. Not important actually. Our pop-singers should express somehow their "actor talent" as they evaluate it. These are movies without any message, idea, expression or provocation. For them it's just a way of earning big money.

And the second is - films for "thinking audience", dramatic and emotional, you can watch it million times and they're becoming new classic. It's cinema not about bourgeois, it's about ordinary people, about their destinies and personal dramas inside of personality - complicated, deep, tangled.

Our young film directors are creating cinema of new generation.