Reparto 6

Longing for the Old Days and Looking for Meaning

Early in “Ward No. 6,” an updated adaptation of Chekhov’s famous short story set in a Russian provincial mental hospital, the chief doctor, Hobotov (Evgeny Stychkin), leads a documentary film crew through the halls of the shabby institution. In a movie that deliberately blurs the line between fiction and reality, present and past, the sane and the crazy, interviews with actual mental patients (one of whom claims to have killed John Lennon on orders from the Soviet leader Yuri Andropov) are interspersed with actors playing residents speaking Chekhov’s dialogue. [...]

di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (5161 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 27 Novembre 2009