Firebird Movie and Reviews - Movie Background Daily
A camera points at a beautiful woman in a scenic setting. She smiles; she is accustomed to being looked at with interest and admiration. But we see through the lens of the camera and the eye of the photographer that the focus has been adjusted to blur the woman in the foreground to sharpen the image of the man behind her and to the left. The photographer is Roman (Oleg Zagorodnii), the man he is literally focusing on is Sergey (Tom Prior, who also co-scripted), the women who does not realize that the photo will not capture her smile is Luisa (Diana Pozharskaya). It is the 1970s and all three are in the Soviet Union-era military in Estonia, based on this true story as told years later by Sergey.
“Firebird” is a swooningly romantic love story, clearly influenced and inspired by films like “Brokeback Mountain,” with themes of forbidden love in an ultra-masculine setting. It also draws from some of the classic love stories of the past like "Now Voyager," with deep, unabashed romanticism, as though the modernist tone of ironic distance never existed. This love story gets the full-scale, old-school glamour treatment: gorgeous people, yearning glances, exquisite images, swelling music, passionate kisses, interlaced fingers, golden moments, anguished moments. Although there are very explicit passages, beyond the wildest imagination of the movie romances of the 1940s and '50s, “Firebird” holds on to the symbolic depiction of passion, with rainstorms and even a shot of planes soaring through the sky at a climactic moment.
As the story opens, Sergey is a private in his last weeks of military service, just as Roman, an officer and a fighter pilot, is arriving on the base. There is an immediate connection over their shared interest in developing photographs. But the difference in their rank, the difficulty of finding a way to sense one another’s interest, and the risk of five years hard labor for homosexual activity make it almost impossible for them to find their way to a kiss. By the time it happens, we are anticipating it almost as eagerly as they are.
Director and co-screenwriter Peeter Rebane evokes the chilliness and repression of the Soviet-era military culture, where discipline is extremely rigid, even brutal, but with the thin veneer of brotherhood. Officers are oxymoronically referred to as “Comrade Colonel” and “Comrade Lieutenant.” Despite the suggestive chumminess of the language, the hierarchy is strictly observed and no departure from even the most trivial of the rules is tolerated. This adds to the already overpowering stakes for Roman and Sergey.
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