Vika is twenty years old. She has black fingernail polish, wears pink dresses, and is constantly depressed. While working at a pizza place, she gets an order for a pizza delivery from Venya, a strange twenty year old boy who lives all alone in a deserted apartment in the middle of Moscow. Venya suffers from agarophobia, the fear of open space. When Vika arrives Venya lets her in and locks the door behind her.
Acting
Bichevin's twitchy, magnetic agoraphobe steals every frame.
Cinematography
Cramped apartment becomes entire universe through clever framing.
Direction
Vorskla stretches one location into 95 minutes of uneasy intimacy.
Director
Igor Vorskla
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Russia's late-2000s indie wave exploring urban alienation in booming post-Soviet Moscow.
Leonid Bichevin became known for playing lost young men; this role typecast him beautifully.
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