Onegin

1999 "A magical era. A passionate longing. A love that spans time."
6.8| 1h44m| en
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In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat – a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is introduced to the young Tatiana. A passionate and virtuous girl, she soon falls hopelessly under the spell of the aloof newcomer and professes her love for him

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Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!
Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!
SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
Alistair Olson After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Framescourer I haven't read Pushkin. However, I can imagine that this film is a faithful adaptation of the narrative, if nothing else. It is a film entirely at the service of telling the story around which the atmospherics - the romance - of rejected and lost love is fitted. On the face of it this doesn't sound like a problem. The experience of watching the film is one of odd gear shifting: narrative advance; pause to brood; narrative again, and so on. There's a sense of going through the motions, of professionalism. It's as if the players had been dropped into their characters, told the plan and faithfully carried it out. The only real exception to this is Liv Tyler, who manages all the facets of Tatyana with emotional homogeneity. Everyone else is studied. Fiennes is intense as Onegin but not particularly convincing. This, I'm afraid strikes me as a role - indeed, an entire project - predicated on the success of his brooding, conflicted aristocrat in Minghella's English Patient. I suspect a different director, such as Minghella, would have changed that relationship with the role. Indeed a better director might have insisted on a better script in order to assume the burden of storytelling properly and allow the actors to get on with their job. 5/10
Armand A story about love and its fragility. In which Pushkin is more than a old passing writer but author of life pieces drawing. Told by great actors, show of details and nuances, it preserves the soul of novel and create a kind of spring music. Delicate, subtle and sad. Invitation to discover the Russian literature, romantic slice of a time - seed of our, Onegin is one of this movies - key for feelings, expectations and searches lost for many people. Ralph Fiennes is perfect Onegin, in the shadows of angst and empty existence, behind deep sentiments and pray of Tatyana charm. And Liv Tyler is a very interesting character , creation of looks , games and silence. At first sight, a cocktail between BBC productions and Michalkov. In fact, only precise art of Martha Fiennes. And a impressive result.
avgust The original story is arguably the best piece of Russian literature. As such it presents a multifaceted reflection of Russian life of early nineteenth century and a compelling drama told lucidly with wit and subtlety.None can be applied to the movie we have to see. We are fed with ignorant clichés, belabored with shameless vulgarity and sodomized with lies that not just alter, but plainly kill the original story.Creators of the movie clearly deem their viewers to be incapable of subtlety. And they approach their audience as cunning salesmen whose task is to sell a cheap kitsch as a treasured masterpiece. Pushkin also could not rely on his readers' developed taste. But his novel lifted his readers up, this movie on the contrary, dumbs down the original to the level of the viewers.The movie cannot possibly be worse than it is.
fatihcantekin the basic topic of this movie is love and faithfulness.the movie and it's tough background basically comes from ^aleksandr sergeyevic puskin^'s book namely 'yevgeni onegin '.there are lot of vital stages on the film.the beginning of love and the fact that being felt in love to some one has described realistically.there are some minor details that gives the path to create impressive movie as this one.one of that detail is the owner of a latter is the one who is obtained not the one writes.perhaps this sounds meaningless at first glance but this if you go into the details,it would become touching. at the further steps of the movie becomes a combat between 'Ralph Fiennes' and 'Liv Tyler'in terms of acting but there is no loser in this fight both of them are victorious.i suggest this film to everyone don't let the low vote average prevent you to watch it.