FILM ‘Such beautiful people’

Marta, a lonely woman in her mid-thirties, makes her living by fishing in the sea and selling her catch. She is in desperate need of finding a man in her life for she simply needs to love. One day, when she has all but given up on her dream, an equally lonely man walks into her life, triggering off an avalanche of feelings in Marta. Their attraction is mutual, but the man has a secret and a history he needs to sort out before he can commit to a relationship.

The directorial debut of Dmytro Moiseyev in the feature narrative genre is beautifully photographed if a bit slow in its plotline development. The dialogue is at times stilted and the acting uneven. Yet the director abundantly shows an unmistakable promise. The film is wonderfully refreshing thanks to the mere fact that its protagonists speak a modern literary Ukrainian free from contamination with Russian. That alone gives the film a cultural dimension that has become a rarity in post-Soviet Ukrainian movies.