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2024 film by Alexandros Avranas From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quiet Life is a 2024 drama film directed by Alexandros Avranas. It stars Chulpan Khamatova, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Naomi Lamp, and Miroslava Pashutina as a refugee family dealing with the effects of resignation syndrome. It premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on 29 August 2024.
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Directed by | Alexandros Avranas |
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Cinematography | Olympia Mytilinaiou |
Edited by | Dounia Sichov |
Music by | Tuomas Kantelinen |
Production company | Les Films du Worso |
Distributed by | Elle Driver |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
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In 2018, Natalia, Sergei, and their two daughters, Alina and Katja, are living in Sweden, having fled their native Russia. After their asylum application is rejected, Katja falls into a mysterious coma caused by resignation syndrome.
Director Alexandros Avranas was inspired to create the film after reading an article about resignation syndrome in The New Yorker. For his research, he met with Dr. Elisabeth Hultcrantz and Dr. Karl Sallin, leading experts of the condition.[1] Filming began in 2018.[2]
A clip from the film was released on 20 August 2024.[3] It premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on 29 August 2024 as part of the Orizzonti competition.[4][5]
Marc van de Klashorst of the International Cinephile Society gave the film three-and-a-half out of five stars and called it "a film that keeps its audience at arm's length, but also one that makes its message resonate and shows that humanity in the end conquers all."[6]
Serena Seghedoni of Loud and Clear Reviews gave the film two out of five stars, calling it "a jumbled mess" and writing, "Alexandros Avranas' Quiet Life doesn't quite know what to do with the fascinating, real-life phenomenon at its center, resulting in a mess of a movie with little to say."[7]
Allan Hunter of Screen Daily called the film "unsetlling" and "coolly intriguing".[8]
Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Result | Ref. |
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Venice Film Festival | 7 September 2024 | Orizzonti Award for Best Film | Nominated | [9] |
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