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Bookmark this pageTorrents of Spring (1989)
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
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From Time Out Film Guide
Russian landowner (Hutton) falls in love with German shopkeeper's daughter (Golino), is seduced by formidable aristocrat (Kinski), and loses both of them. So much for story. Even so, motives and desires remain confusingly ambiguous in Skolimowski's lightweight adaptation of Turgenev's novel. This aspires to be a prestigious international production, which means the ill-assembled cast speak in thick, dubbed accents, the photography is ravishing, the sun is always setting, and even the peasant extras are beautifully turned out. If chocolate boxes could move, this is how they'd look. Odd touches of bizarre humour apart, nothing spells the signature of the director of The Shout and Moonlighting, and when the man himself appears at the bewilderingly abrupt finale, ascribing to Hutton 'a life empty of all meaning', one wonders if that wasn't the problem all along.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Producer: Angelo Rizzoli
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Nastassja Kinski, Valeria Golino, William Forsythe, Urbano Barberini, Christopher Janczar, Jerzy Skolimowski full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 101 mins
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