В далеком 2016 году в США, Флорида на фестивале "Silver Spring International Film Festival" произошла встреча молодого режиссера Михаила Романовского с основателем и директором киношколы "Manhattan Film Institute" Тони Спиридакисом. С тех пор судьба Михаила круто изменилась, он стал студентом, а затем преподавателем в этой киношколе, переехал жить и работать в США. Тогда его фильм «Одинокие души микробов» победил как «Audience choice best short film».
В новом 2020 году Флорида принесла свежую победу – фильм «Таймлайн» взял награду «Best Fiction Short» на кинофестивале «American Golden Picture International Film Festival 2020». Этот конкурс международный и предполагает одно крупное ежегодное мероприятие – награждение и показ лучших фильмов зрителям. При этом, жюри отбирают победителей месяца и вручают цифровые награды.
Фильм «Таймлайн» имеет хорошие отзывы из разных уголков планеты. Вот отзыв от кинокритика «American Golden Picture International Film Festival».
A review on the Fiction Short film “Timeline” Directed by Mikhail Romanovskiy:
The Fiction Short Film “Timeline” by Mikhail Romanovskiy is a very interesting film. It is a short story with cinematic elements of human feeling. “Timeline” achieved the “Best Fiction Short” for a short film in the “American Golden Picture International Film Festival”. ”This is a short drama, about a single, middle-aged woman, who lost both of her sons. Ten years later, and still unable to overcome the pain of her loss, she makes an attempt to bring back her sons through a video editing program to be able to communicate with them. In order to accomplish that, she is seeking help from a young man who is a professional video editor and who's name and age happens to be the same as her youngest son's Alex.” A well-told story with an interesting twist that may surprise the audience. The film has a classic challenge of the rational and the emotional: The Screenplay of the film “Timeline” is strong and powerful and when it becomes a film directed by Mikhail, it is very special because of his unique point of view in directing all cast, crew and the whole film and guiding cinematographer to capture the beautiful shots. The masterful performance of the lead role Elena Yakovleva when she tells her tragic story leading the story to a terrific revelation that makes the viewers replay the movie in their imagination many times after finishing the movie. The screenplay has a special attraction in a way that the new information, variety of the scenes and exclusive events are given to the audience all the way through the film, so the audience gets connected and involved in the story with no time to get bored through the film. The director's creativity and talent are beautifully demonstrated by the meticulously composed shots of movement and closeups. The director had done a great job on the shot when the lead role is asked what had happened to her sons. A two-minute shot starts with a medium shot and ends up with a close shot so tenderly and smoothly. This technique is psychologically well used in order for the audience to feel what they are hearing from the lead role who has acted very beautifully and realistically in the film. The director has not used any music in the film. That is a great positive point because the subject is very sensitive in a way that the audience can feel it just by watching the beautiful act of the main role and can sympathize with her with no need for the music to interfere. Another positive point in the film is that the director was able to get the best act out of the main role and she has shown marvelous acting in a way that she shared her feeling that is so clearly shown in her eyes and facial mimic. In fact, a special de-co-page makes a real and believable sense and atmosphere for the audience and makes the audience get attracted more to the film and see it as a more realistic event. The great coordination among the cinematographer and lead performer has made it possible to achieve this wonderful goal. The cinematography works well to develop the short fiction film and it has a variety of visual shots on this entire film. As mentioned above the camera work adds to the film and helps creating an interesting, realistic atmosphere in the film. Lighting, Composition, Framing, angles and camera movement create a lot of beautiful shots that are easily helping the audience to understand the deep feeling of the lead character and story and the atmosphere like a documentary film. On the other hand, Cinematography is one of the very positive and powerful aspects of this film. The cinematographer has tried to offer a believable and realistic atmosphere. The performance by the main character and the supporting role looks simple though it is very believable and attractive because it shows the simplicity in the real characters that the actors are showing up very well. All mentioned above could not be achieved without a great direction from the director of the film. The director could bring his thoughts to the big screen with guiding, managing and directing the whole cast and crew. “Timeline” is a nice short fiction film with so many strengths.
The Fiction Short Film “Timeline” by Mikhail Romanovskiy is an interesting film with believable and strong performance, a solid plot that is really good, deeply felt and strong dramatic film.
The “American Golden Picture International FF”
April 2019
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