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An interesting suite of sketches by various directors around the theme of, well, not surprisingly, love and marital relationships. Themes go from extramarital sex and swinging to finding love despite a strict, puritanical upbringing, and from the loss of one’s virginity to the desire for a perfect baby. The whole affair is a bit tough to follow if you must rely on subtitles, because dialogues are quite rapid, but fortunately, the stories aren’t complex at all. If you’re familiar with Russian society, culture and cinema, you’ll be in familiar territory. However, if you’re a prude, easily offended, stay at home: the language and approach are quite blunt. It is not a great movie, but still a very enjoyable one that I may see a second time. I’ll have to hurry, though: it’s in its first week, only at the Forum, and there were eight people in the theater yesterday.