Svobodnoe plavanie
In Russian comedy Svobodnoe plavanie (Free Floating), Lyonya - who works at the local factory - sees his planned career vanish when the factory is taken over by ‘the Americans’ and closed down. He becomes a regular visitor to the employment office and attempts a variety of dead end jobs - shoe seller in a market, plasterer, road mender.
He eventually meets a female school friend and, after trading insults, tells her she’s pretty.
Set in a small town on the Volga, where hardly anything happens, Boris Khlebnikov finds a quirky humour and sense of the absurd in his laconic observation of the mundane - a picture of Chuck Norris on a workbench, trying on shoes, a woman peeling a boiled egg, the creaking door of the employment office - and asks us to look again at the world about us.
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Friday 30 Mar 2007 | Paul | Comedy
