Gerbarii . Herbarium
How does beauty age? Has charisma got a use by date? Herbarium portrays a brief but significant period in the lives of old people living in an elderly home. A mature women’s beauty contest turns a mundane day upside down and tests delicate social structures. In this pageant, the judges are not satis...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Russian |
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Kinoteatr.Doc
2007
Russia |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:879e2b2c-5fca-4ca4-bf9a-478ad47e3ef1 |
| Summary: | How does beauty age? Has charisma got a use by date? Herbarium portrays a brief but significant period in the lives of old people living in an elderly home. A mature women’s beauty contest turns a mundane day upside down and tests delicate social structures. In this pageant, the judges are not satisfied with external beauty alone, but the contestants also have to captivate their audience – some do it by speech, others by singing and dancing. A rare and unusual documentary that flows like a Slavic folk song – beautiful and melancholic while laughing spiritedly in the face of grief. |
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| Published: | 2007 |