JA LYUBLU TEBYA

Directors: Olga Stolpovskaya and Dimitrij Troitskij
Country: Russia
Year: 2003
Runtime: 85 minutes
Language: Russian with English subtitles

Awards: New Fest: New York GLBT Film Festival - Best Foreign Narrative Feature Award

How’s this for the plot of a romantic comedy set in contemporary Moscow: when a well-known, drop-dead gorgeous television anchorwoman discovers, much to her chagrin, that she can’t pay her tab in a restaurant, a well-heeled, drop-dead gorgeous design artist comes to her aid. Soon they are sleeping and eating and eating and eating together. (Think of the eating scene in Tom Jones.) Then our hero meets a poor, drop-dead gorgeous boy who feeds the animals at the Moscow zoo and, in an act of kindness, brings him back to the apartment. So you think you know what happens next? Boy meets boy, boy beds boy, girl returns to find them in bed. Yes, that does happen. But that’s only the beginning. Who ends up with whom? The film becomes increasingly complex and ever more and more comic. The scenes with the boy’s family are hysterically funny. I guess sexual hi-jinks are not confined to Miami Beach and San Francisco. Charming, sexy, funny. Definitely a feel-good movie. Try it. You’ll like it. ~ Nick Salerno

Principal Cast: Lyubov Tolkalina, Damir Badmajew, Jewgenij Korijakowskij, Alisa Tanskaya

Producer: Dmitry Troitsky
Screenwriter: Olga Stolpovskaya

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