All My Lenins
- brisk
- inventive
- funny
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / satire, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Young and active nationalist Aleksander Kesküla makes up his mind to use Lenin, the Bolsheviks' leader, in order to start a revolution in Russia with German money and create a new national state of Estonia in the north-east of Russia. For security reasons, five doubles will be found and trained for Lenin. All of them are finally sent to Russia to instigate the revolution. How will the real Lenin put up with all this?
Our read · All My Lenins (1997) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · satire · historical entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of All My Lenins
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a quirky Estonian satire on revolution using Lenin lookalikes.”
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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