Me Too
Ya tozhe khochu
Synopsis
Four passengers (Bandit, his friend Matvei, Matvei’s old father, Musician, and his beautiful girlfriend) rush in a huge black jeep along an empty road in search of the “Bell Tower of Happiness.”
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Awards & Festivals
Venice Film Festival
2012
Russian Guild of Film Critics
2013 | 2 nominations including: Best Film (White Elephant)
Critics reviews
The profundity of a country with a constitutional aversion towards banality, the reluctance to compromise, and a surprising, selfless generosity is encapsulated in a film that is disarmingly simple and yet ancestral. . . . The pursuit of happiness is of total irrelevance to the protagonists; what is at stake is the unresolved pain of life, which Russians have historically faced with a self-annihilating determination.
Celluloid Liberation Front
June 27, 2018
Film Comment
You don’t often get a directorial swan song as explicit, or as darkly funny, as the late Aleksei Balabanov’s tenth and final film… Balabanov’s final film might sound like an allegorical critique of the era in question, but it’s also like the last song at the end of the night: various characters utter the film’s title as an almost comically plaintive refrain. As for Balabanov, he apparently had no illusions about what was to come: he plays a director who has been denied entry to the bell tower.
Nicolas Rapold
July 14, 2013
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