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Hipsters(Стиляги)

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Russia · 2008
2h 10m
Director Valery Todorovsky
Starring Anton Shagin, Oksana Akinshina, Maksim Matveev, Igor Voynarovskiy
Genre Drama, Romance

In this hit Russian musical, a group of friends flaunts Soviet authority in 1950s Moscow by embracing jazz. But when Communist Mels falls for Polly, a free-spirited jazz fan, he risks losing his Party membership by associating with her rebellious crew.

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75

Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene

An over-the-top Russian musical about hipsters set in 1950s Moscow, where getting a non-pastel-colored tie is a mafia-mediated operation and a saxophone is considered a concealed weapon? Yes, please.

85

NPR by Ella Taylor

The hipster moment may have faded fast through repression and attrition, but in Todorovsky's reading, it was crucially formative on today's Russian youth.

60

Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

Hipsters is also a musical (in an intentionally naive "Absolute Beginners" vein), and while everything looks glinty and gorgeous, the story's political edge is dulled by excessive levity.

50

Variety by Leslie Felperin

Although a massive hit at home, taking approximately $16 million at the wickets, this great-looking but tonally uneven pic won't jive with audiences quite so well anywhere else.

70

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

Who knows if anything remotely resembling the culture of Hipsters really existed? It's a musical, after all. In any case this movie, which won the 2009 Nika (the Russian Oscar) for best picture, is an endearing curiosity that, at 125 minutes, is as badly in need of a trim as the hair of its comically coiffed dandies.

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