Loveless

Synopsis: A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Andrey Zvyagintsev
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 17 wins & 28 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
86
R
Year:
2017
127 min
328 Views


- Guys! Wait for me!

- They're here, to check the flat.

Clean your mess.

- Hello!

- Good evening. - Please come in.

- I'll give the shoe-covers right away.

- No no, please, for heaven's sake.

- It's a nice district here.

Good ecology.

There will be a new metro station soon,

and a mall is nearby.

- A church was build there recently.

- A church is good.

What about the neighbours?

- They're calm.

- Why do you sell the flat?

- We're divorcing.

- Oh... I'm sorry.

- It's okay.

- Alright, what's there?

- Here's a bathroom.

- Mhm.

- And a toilet there.

- And what's here?

- It's a bedroom.

- How many square meters?

- And here?

- A living room.

- How many square meters over here?

-25?

- What's next?

- Well... Here we have a children-room.

- I see.

- Say hello to the people!

- Hello.

- He's 12 but what a wild-man.

- You've got a real man here, what do you want.

- A real man... He starts crying at a hint of a problem.

- Well mom...

- Don't "well" me, how many times must I repeat this!

- Can you remind the overall amount

of square meters?

-85,4.

- Right.

- Mm, I see.

[Speech from a TV talk-show, talking about relations]

- Hi.

Resitng?

- What do you care, anyways?

- Just.

So? Did they come?

- They said they'll think.

- I see.

- And what about you?

Have you thought?

- About what?

- What do you mean? You're the mother.

- I'm so tired of you...

- He really needs a mother.

- At this age he needs a father more.

On the other hand,

knowing what kind of father you are...

He likes it in the kids' camp,

he'll like it in the boarding school as well. Very similar.

He'll join the army one day,

so why not start getting used to.

And what did you want?

You wanted it to be the usual way?

You hit it and quit it, you sh*t here, sh*t there,

and she'll clean up the mess, right?

No no, it won't happen that way.

I'm gonna move on as well.

Heard of equality?

- Do you even understand that they'll get us?

Who's gonna get you?

You yourself can get anybody.

- Juvenals.

Social workers, I don't know, some child psychologists...

F***in ombudsmen!

- Then keep him, don't torture yourself.

- You'll have more problems, you're the mother!

- You decided to care about me?

Oh thank you.

Juvenals...

Juvenals will be only too happy.

It's like saving a newborn out of a fire.

House's burnt, family's burnt, and a baby got saved.

Ombudsman's act of bravery.

- Well maybe... We should talk with your mother again?

- Talk to yours, in some spiritual sance.

I've talked to mine already,

I don't want to do it again, thank you.

- And the "Beard" is gonna discover...

- Oh now I get it!

How stupid I was to think

that you're worrying about the kid!

How funny would it be if you get fired

from your precious work, huh?

Naturally, after having sent his own son

to an orphanage!

That's so un-Christian, so un-Orthodox, right?

The "Beard" won't approve, right?

Oh my, oh my... What are you gonna do?

That's when I'll be laughing at you...

- Enough!

- Look how decisive he is!

- What?

What are you looking at?

Stop gritting your teeth.

- You pss me off so much.

- Bastard.

- So when are we gonna tell him about it?

- We?

What do you mean "we"?

You're gonna tell!

Yeah, you'll tell whenever you want,

if you want you can wake him up now and tell!

Come on! Go ahead.

Bastard.

Enough, stop it, don't talk anymore to me about it.

Don't talk to me at all!

I can't stand you anymore, literally!

Move out already, how long can you be waiting!

If you're so greedy, I can hire the loaders for you!

So that they move away your goddamned junk.

Get the fck out!

What are you hanging around here? It's long over!

- I have the same rights as you!

- Yeah, yeah, you do! You'll get what you want, anyway!

Dammit.

Piece of sh*t.

[Voices from the TV, talking about exercises]

- I'm not hungry anymore.

- Eat it up. Why should I throw it away?

- I'm not hungry anymore!

- Drink your cacao.

Why are you so feeble? Have you fallen ill?

- I'm not feeble.

- Okay, leave it I'll put it away.

And where is a "Thank you"?

- Thank you.

[Voice from the radio, talking about politics

and about the end of world in December of 2012]

- Watch your way,

a**hole.

Sorry.

Fifth, please.

Thank you.

Hi.

Hi.

Hey there.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- Bon appetit.

- Thank you.

- Good afternoon.

- Good afternoon.

-215 roubles.

- Hey, in case the family status

of an employee of the company changes,

will they realize it up there?

- Sooner or later.

During some team-building or company party.

Because everybody has to be

with a family, with children.

And why do you ask?

- Just curious.

During all this time I've been working here,

I've never seen anybody divorce.

- That's because it's our corporate policy.

You know yourself.

People divorce only due to

some natural reasons.

Death and so on.

- So you mean nobody ever got divorced?

Last New year's corporate party

one of the IT guys

brought a fake wife

with two daughters.

- No way.

- Because he got divorced with his real wife.

This is how he was overcoming the situation.

- Wow.

- Where he found a fake wife -

I don't know.

Maybe hired.

Looks like nobody found out about it yet.

He still works here.

Maybe he married one more time.

- I see.

So, if you divorce and then quickly remarry,

you can get unnoticed?

- If your families aren't too close friends.

- My family isn't.

- Then who cares.

- Well, yeah.

Look, and where from do you know about this IT guy?

- Well, first of all,

he's not an IT guy.

I said it on purpose.

He's from a different department,

don't ask from which.

Second of all,

I know it from the source.

Well, you got it.

By the way,

I haven't talked to him for a long time,

lack of time.

Just

saying hello to each other, sometimes, from afar.

- You won't tell anybody, right?

- Just like during a confession, don't worry.

- What do you think,

will there be the end of the world?

- For sure.

Will you hand me some material to work with?

Have anything?

God said we must share.

- Maybe I'll get something in the evening.

- This will a mutual benefit, don't worry.

- Mhm.

- Oh my...

- He's worrying a lot.

- Good, let him worry.

- He's suffering, poor guy.

- Good. They all are masters at messing things up,

how about cleaning things?

- You think he's worrying about the kid?

Yeah, right.

Ha has loans from the bank, he's afraid of getting fired.

You know, his boss is all so Orthodox, to the bone.

- A fundamentalist?

- Mhm.

Has a huge beard while wearing a Brioni-costume.

- A glamorous guy?

- Indeed.

He started an Orthodox shariah there.

You get a job only if you're married.

And baptized, of course.

And during our vacations we had a pilgrimage

all around the temples.

- Yeah, I remember. On the other hand,

it's kind of cool. Exoticism.

- Oh come on, it's so boring.

- Bend your leg, shall we.

- But he has a big salary for that.

So, as I see, he's really getting nervous.

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Oleg Negin

Oleg Negin (born 2 July 1970) is a Russian screenwriter and novelist. He was born in Moscow.Negin's novels include П.Ушкин and Кипарис во дворе, published in 2004. In film, he became a collaborator with director Andrey Zvyagintsev, and at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival their Leviathan won the Best Screenplay Award. For their 2017 film Loveless, Negin and Zvyagintsev were jointly nominated for the European Film Award for Best Screenwriter. more…

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