Sunday, August 20, 2006

Vodka Lemon ***


Directed by Hiner Saleem.

A widower, with three apparantly useless sons, struggles financially in an isolated village in post-Soviet Armenia, selling off his possessions one by one to supplement his $10/month pension. Making frequent trips to the cemetery to visit the grave of his deceased wife, he eventually warms up to a woman who visits the grave of her deceased husband.

The story is not very well developed, but the movie is worth watching simply for a glimpse into the culture of these people. It's interesting to learn that they preferred living under communism.

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