Olya (Maria Matzel) studies at the university, but all her energy is not spent on studying, but on hating others. She hates the teacher who doesn’t want to give her a test, her friend (Angelina Pakhomova), who is only interested in men, her father (Yuri Kolokolnikov), who abandoned the family and returned 15 years later, and her mother. (Victoria Tolstoganova), who does not understand her. . Olya tells her feelings to a psychotherapist (Philip Yankovsky). And the people she wished death on suddenly actually start dying. The circumstances are different, but the cause in all cases is the same: asphyxiation.
“Black Cloud” is one of the festival’s most notable premieres. Firstly, because this is a project with perhaps the highest concentration of stars (in addition to those mentioned above, Maryana Spivak and Evgeny Grishkovets starred), secondly, because this is a new project by Karen Oganesyan (“Game of Thrones”). survival”). Also intriguing is the script (it was written by Daria Gratsevich, who worked on both “Slaves”), a hybrid of a children’s horror story and a psychology manual, which explains that you must discard destructive feelings so that they stop destroying you. from inside.
Let’s start with the good: Maria Matsel is the perfect choice for the role of a very angry girl. The dialogues are cleverly and even masterfully written (our favorite is about cats), and this is a very beautiful film (cameraman: Levan Kapanadze). But it is impossible to bring these scenes together into a single whole. What hides in the plot holes is not ambiguity (or maybe it all happened only in Olya’s head?), but the bewilderment of why and how this happens. Those who, after having inhaled this black cloud, counted on artistic ecstasy, will suffer bad hallucinations.
