Of course, the child in this toy world is the third superfluous, as the following story tells. The plot of the showdown, which traumatizes the peeping kid, is clearly inspired by Zvyagintsev’s “Dislike”. However, where the abyss opens up for an outstanding director, the debutante puts on clouds of cartoon darkness, enveloping the marital squabble and translating the imitation of the narrative into the format of speculation on innocent eyes. However, not so innocent, but intensely watching over parental dislike and dreaming of paying off the same greasy coin with the whole world.
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The third, suddenly comedic novel “Gingerbread” tries to tread on the cycle of telepathies of “Culture” with foreign specialists discovering the Russian hinterland. A handsome French man (Alexi Gilo), in search of inspiration for studying Dostoevsky, finds himself in the library of the Ensky gingerbread town, where a curvy girl languishes, gathers dust, gets married and tediously dances. Turning into a rascal, the princess (Julia Topolnitskaya) lures the fool into the unflattering nets spread by the local redneck admirer. A romantic evening ends with a stupid brawl and the frowning of a downtrodden Frenchman by a neighbor who has been sitting in the girls. How by some miracle this not at all funny glamorous game got into the designated dramatic context remains a rhetorical mystery.
