Chronicles of betrayal

Language : Russian

Year of release : 2010

Run time : 1h51m

Genre : Thriller / Romance

Anna is married to a successful architect, with whom she shares a business. He tells her he was asked to build the bridge he always wanted, and has to be away. Anna is not pleased about it, as it feels he always puts his career first, her second, as she wants kids.

Taking pictures for their latest project, she meets Igor. They exchange phone numbers, and he starts sending her gifts.

The first gift is a box of candies he offered her when he gave her a ride, that she liked. He then asks her out, at 6 o'clock in the morning, and takes her phishing!

Slowly, but surely, they start an affair, and it's pretty obvious whenever she wants to break up with him, he has some issues, as he doesn't take No for an answer.

I personally enjoyed the movie, although I didn't understand much. From the getgo, their dynamic screams toxic relationship. If Igor did to me what he did to Anna ( he calls and honks downstairs her apartment until she comes downstairs,takes her outside Moscow, and when he parks, he asks for her keys and phone-I don't know why she gave them to him- and leaves her in a forest,in the middle of nowhere,while it was raining! She also left home in her bathrobe thinking she could reason with him! ), that would have been the last time he saw me.

Also, the moment she starts seeing him, her life is turned upside down, as he wants her all to himself, and she misses time off work. She spends days without going to work, or getting there in the afternoon (good thing she was the boss, because she would have been fired!)! I don't know if he really had a job, because he was always taking her somewhere, then trying to keep her with him there.

SPOILERS - He tells her his mother didn't want him once she had his younger brother, but his mother tells a different story, of an unhinged Igor, who was obsessed with her, who wanted her all for himself and who might have actually hurt his little brother!

Igor pretty much sees his mother in Anna!

The actors were good. The lead actress is beautiful.

I didn't quite like the soundtrack as they play opera music, as Igor's mother was an opera singer.

You can watch the full movie here,for free,but it doesn't have subtitles :

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9g7n9o

or here, with auto generated ones,but they are bad :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbLFvoZ06zM

Rating : Worth a watch !