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Zhanna IssabayevaDrehbuch:
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Nagima is a withdrawn eighteen-year-old eking out her existence in a tiny room on the outskirts of Almaty. She adopts a fatalistic attitude towards everything fate has thrown at her. Her only kindred spirit is her similar-aged flatmate Anya, now nine months pregnant. Nagima takes the bus each day to her appallingly paid restaurant job and, with her pittance of a wage and kitchen leftovers, she tries to keep herself and her friend above the poverty line. There is very little chance that the two abandoned girls can expect a better future for themselves.... In this, her fifth feature, the experienced Kazakh director and producer underlines the difficult situation of single women in Kazakhstan, a society controlled largely by men. Using minimal dialogue and vivid, inhospitable locations, Issabayeva unfolds a strong, lyrical story of a desperate desire for love and social acceptance. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
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(49th KVIFF) A slow and depressive lyrical drama. This “genre” is not my cup of tea, but I wouldn’t mind giving Nagima a higher rating because it does have a very good atmosphere and excellent cinematography, and makes good use of the dilapidated locations of the Kazakh backcountry. But for that it shouldn’t have that incredibly stupid ending, which doesn’t really follow from the events thus far. The ideological structure that attempts to defend with a brief monologue is so weak that a flick of a finger would be enough to make it fall like a house of cards. All that is left is the unpleasant aftertaste from how the creators try to pointlessly and cheaply shock the viewer.
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