Buy Me (film)

Buy Me
Theatrical release poster
Russian: Купи меня
Directed byVadim Perelman
Screenplay byDarya Gratsevich
Produced byFyodor Bondarchuk
Alexey Ageyev
Semyon Slepakov
Taimuraz Badziev
Vyacheslav Dusmukhametov
Darya Gratsevich
StarringYulia Khlynina
Anna Adamovich
Svetlana Ustinova
CinematographyYuri Nikogosov
Edited byAlexey Bobrov
Music byIlya Truskovsky
Production
company
Distributed byCentral Partnership
Release date
  • March 1, 2018 (2018-03-01)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Budget$900 000
Box office$399 733

Buy Me (Russian: Купи меня, romanized: Kupi menya) is a 2018 Russian crime drama film directed by Vadim Perelman. It was nominated for the Golden St. George Award at the 39st Moscow International Film Festival.[1][2][3]

Plot

Katya Korolyova from Moscow, a student of the Faculty of Philology, who won a grant to study the archives of the Russian poet Vladislav Khodasevich in Paris, secretly from her mother, instead of a study trip, goes to Abu Dhabi to build a career in modeling there. As a result, she actually turns out to be among the girls who have to please the Arab sheikhs for money. Thanks to the scandal arranged by Katya, the group of models is sent back to Russia.

Returning to Moscow, the adventurer Katya and her two newly-made provincial friends Liza and Galya rent one apartment for three and begin to live off wealthy men, usually married. More experienced friends teach naive Katya how to hunt oligarchs correctly in order to secure a luxurious and carefree future for herself. In pursuit of the dream of a beautiful life, friends will have to make a difficult choice and sacrifice something.

Cast

Critical response

Film critic Boris Ivanov in Film.ru notes in his review:[4]

The heroines do not win special audience sympathy, but they do not need it, because you watch the film to find out what else the girls will throw out and how else they will joke. A cynical Russian comedy about girls of easy virtue, which awkwardly turns into a drama in the finale.

In turn, Zinaida Pronchenko said:[5]

We have seen all this many, many times in films with varying degrees of unconvincingness, ridiculing the lack of spirituality in the capital. Heroes without a past and a future wander in the fog of modernity, the era is recognized by brands, gadgets, musical hits and Internet memes. But, in general, the authors do not know anything about their characters.

References

  1. ^ Конкурсные и российские программы открываются на Московском кинофестивале. — Жюри предстоит первым оценить фильм «Купи меня» Вадима Перельмана
  2. ^ 39 ММКФ: «Купи меня» − куда приводят мечты о красивой жизни
  3. ^ Показ фильма «Купи меня» на ММКФ прошёл с аншлагом
  4. ^ Ivanov, Boris (February 27, 2018). "Рецензия на фильм «Купи меня»" (in Russian). Film.ru.
  5. ^ Pronchenko, Zinaida (March 8, 2018). "Рецензия на фильм «Купи меня»" (in Russian). Seans.