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The Asthenic Syndrome is a 1989 Russian film that, unfortunately, did not resonate with me. While I can appreciate the film's artistic vision and the unique approach it takes to its subject matter, I found myself struggling to engage with the story and the characters. Directed by Kira Muratova, the film explores the lives of everyday people in ...
Jan 16, 2017 · “The Asthenic Syndrome” is a film that exemplified the restless and turbulent condition of late Soviet, when the old rules of living were in the process of being discarded but the new codes had not yet been created. Arguably, the period of Perestroika made people become more emotionally stunted, socially passive and aggressive.
The central poetic vision of The Asthenic Syndrome--as relevant to America in 1996 as it was to Russia in 1989--is that two basic, debilitating forms of compulsive behavior are loose in the world today, extreme aggressiveness and extreme passivity: either people walk down the street picking fights at random with other people, or they go to ...
The presented material indicates that asthenia can be considered as a universal protective mechanism accompanying various psychophysiological processes and somatic diseases, which are based on the mechanisms of energy deficiency. The article discusses different etiological factors and clinical forms of asthenic syndrome (AS) depending on the ...
The Asthenic Syndrome (Astenicheskiy sindrom) Kira Muratova USSR [Ukraine], 1989. featuring. Sergei Popov, Olga Antonova, Natalia Busko, Galina Sakurdaeva, ...
THE ASTHENIC SYNDROME begins as a largely slapstick meditation on grief. (You read that correctly.) But after this extensive prologue, the film shifts focus, becoming a rapidly changing series of loosely connected vignettes. The overall tone of the film is absurdist. It's neither comic, nor tragic, although it touches on both, as though Aki Kaurismäkii was made to direct a Roy Andersson film ...
Sep 10, 2012 · The Asthenic Syndrome. Film; Advertising. Time Out says. Muratova's literally ungodly film is the most recommendable hard-to-sit-through movie of the year. It starts out in monochrome, telling the ...
