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Elizabeth Ilyuschenko

Lina K

Nikita Kritsky

Ilya Svetkin

The girl, who works as a fashion designer and tailor for a living, received a new and complicated order. She is stressed over working with a new material. Things get complicated when she starts feeling like someone is stalking her.

Sharp Elements

Everything Starts With A Fashion Sketch

&apos;Sharp Elements&apos; is an independent auteur film that relies on detailed working process of a tailor, duality, minimalist musical accompaniment and exploration of obsession.

Everything starts with a fashion sketch. Then film stops on every step of clothes creation. Buttons selection to a trench coat will become the driving force of the entire film.

From the middle, the film is perceived in two ways. Through the prism of realism and through the prism of fantasy.

In realism - Creative crisis and the likelihood of becoming a stalker&apos;s victim.

In fantasy - The heroine&apos;s obsession with work results in the image of a metaphorical villain with a straight razor.

The film&apos;s long introduction with a minimalist soundtrack forms the framework of the film and tells us that we are in for a thriller cooked over a slow fire.

Perfectionism and an obsession with finding the right buttons, which turns into a state of insanity, cause trepidation no less than the forces of evil that follow the heroine.

In the minimalist world of &apos;Sharp Elements&apos;, nature is serene, even in the presence of an ominous find in the grass. And the night city is filmed as if it were a dreamlike walk through a decorative city.

I will separately highlight two films within a film, which conceal creepy plots. The first film within a film is a horror, a kind of mix of &apos;The Ring&apos; and &apos;Videodrome&apos;. The second is a thriller in the style of Alan Pakula&apos;s films.

I liked the fight between the heroine and the antagonist. If this were a regular slasher, we would expect running and throwing improvised means at the killer. But here everything happens lightning fast, as if it were a samurai fight.

The film&apos;s author, Ilya Svetkin, has given his cinema a distinctive style. Its plot is as schematic as a fashion sketch of a trench coat. And the restrained atmosphere simultaneously contains the world of working days and the dreamlike unreal.

'Sharp Elements' is an independent auteur film that relies on detailed working process of a tailor, duality, minimalist musical accompaniment and exploration of obsession.

Everything starts with a fashion sketch. Then film stops on every step of clothes creation. Buttons selection to a trench coat will become the driving force of the entire film.

From the middle, the film is perceived in two ways. Through the prism of realism and through the prism of fantasy.

In realism - Creative crisis and the likelihood of becoming a stalker's victim.

In fantasy - The heroine's obsession with work results in the image of a metaphorical villain with a straight razor.

The film's long introduction with a minimalist soundtrack forms the framework of the film and tells us that we are in for a thriller cooked over a slow fire.

Perfectionism and an obsession with finding the right buttons, which turns into a state of insanity, cause trepidation no less than the forces of evil that follow the heroine.

In the minimalist world of 'Sharp Elements', nature is serene, even in the presence of an ominous find in the grass. And the night city is filmed as if it were a dreamlike walk through a decorative city.

I will separately highlight two films within a film, which conceal creepy plots. The first film within a film is a horror, a kind of mix of 'The Ring' and 'Videodrome'. The second is a thriller in the style of Alan Pakula's films.

I liked the fight between the heroine and the antagonist. If this were a regular slasher, we would expect running and throwing improvised means at the killer. But here everything happens lightning fast, as if it were a samurai fight.

The film's author, Ilya Svetkin, has given his cinema a distinctive style. Its plot is as schematic as a fashion sketch of a trench coat. And the restrained atmosphere simultaneously contains the world of working days and the dreamlike unreal.

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