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German DVB-Rip:Russia/ Germany/ Sweden/ Spain/ France/ Italy, STW/ Pandora/ et al., 2002, 94 minutes, Color
In English, Italian, and Spanish
Director: Sergei Bodrov, Sr.
Screenplay: Sergei Bodrov, Sr., Carolyn Cavallero, Terrence Malick (uncredited)
Camera: Xavier Perez Grobet, Sergei Astakhov
Music: Gia Kancheli
Art Direction: Maria Haard, Yosune Lasa, Gregor Mager, Elena Zhukova
With: Rebecka Liljeberg, Joachim Krol, Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Keith Allen
Lola is a sullen, misfit teenager in a family of European circus performers. Surrounded by eccentric, often drunk adults, her only friend is a Siberian bear named (what else) Misha, a gift from her father. Lola discovers one morning that Misha is in reality (or at least in her reality) a shape-shifting man. At this point, the film becomes particularly indebted to the archetypal, folkloric animal-groom narrative. As in that tradition, the film uses the suitor's dual biological status as a metaphor for the girl's transition from one stage of life to the next, for the adolescent's simultaneous desire for a warm, paternal chest on which to chastely rest her head, and a hairless, muscular lover. When Misha asks her whether she wants him as a bear or a man, Lola responds sincerely that she wants both. That solution becomes increasingly untenable as the film progresses and culminates in a series of fateful (and fatal) choices that the lovers must make.
One of the most notable elements of the film is the varied music, both diegetic and extra-diegetic; the soundtrack and the on-screen musical performances reflect the itinerant life of the circus people as they move across Europe, from Russia to Sweden, across Germany, and, finally, to Spain. Both the thematics and the tone of the film are something of a departure for Bodrov, who has favored a broader socio-political and historical perspective in his previous work. The film also testifies to the director's increasingly international (read: non-Russian) thematic interests. Ultimately, the highly Euro-clectic Bear's Kiss might be most concisely described as a minor-key hybrid of motifs from Beauty and the Beast, King Kong, La Strada, and Born Free.
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