Quiet Life (film)

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Quiet Life
Directed by Alexandros Avranas
Written by
  • Stavros Pamballis
  • Alexandros Avranas
Starring
CinematographyOlympia Mytilinaiou
Edited byDounia Sichov
Music by Tuomas Kantelinen
Production
company
Les Films du Worso
Distributed byElle Driver
Release date
  • 29 August 2024 (2024-08-29)(Venice)
Running time
99 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Germany
  • Sweden
  • Estonia
  • Greece
  • Finland
Languages
  • Russian
  • Swedish
  • English

Quiet Life is a 2024 drama film directed by Alexandros Avranas. It stars Chulpan Khamatova, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Naomi Lamp, and Miroslava Pashutina as a refugee family dealing with the effects of resignation syndrome. It premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on 29 August 2024.

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Premise

In 2018, Natalia, Sergei, and their two daughters, Alina and Katja, are living in Sweden, having fled their native Russia. After their asylum application is rejected, Katja falls into a mysterious coma caused by resignation syndrome.

Cast

Production

Director Alexandros Avranas was inspired to create the film after reading an article about resignation syndrome in The New Yorker . For his research, he met with Dr. Elisabeth Hultcrantz and Dr. Karl Sallin, leading experts of the condition. [1] Filming began in 2018. [2]

Release

A clip from the film was released on 20 August 2024. [3] It premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on 29 August 2024 as part of the Orizzonti competition. [4] [5]

Reception

Marc van de Klashorst of the International Cinephile Society gave the film three-and-a-half out of five stars and called it "a film that keeps its audience at arm's length, but also one that makes its message resonate and shows that humanity in the end conquers all." [6]

Serena Seghedoni of Loud and Clear Reviews gave the film two out of five stars, calling it "a jumbled mess" and writing, "Alexandros Avranas' Quiet Life doesn't quite know what to do with the fascinating, real-life phenomenon at its center, resulting in a mess of a movie with little to say." [7]

Allan Hunter of Screen Daily called the film "unsetlling" and "coolly intriguing". [8]

Accolades

AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryResultRef.
Venice Film Festival 7 September 2024 Orizzonti Award for Best FilmNominated [9]

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References

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