MIFF: another record muhlezh

[Кирилл Сызранский]

That's 33rd Moscow Film Festival has become history. He wrote in his tables of the new record, his sessions, as announced at the final briefing, Nikita Mikhalkov, who visited the 60 000 spectators. That is, 10 thousand people more than last year - have delighted festival's permanent president.

Something with the memory of my cost! If not mistaken, just as in the past year, closing 32 th Festival, Nikita Mikhalkov, the same figure reported to fanfarnoy - 122 thousand spectators. And in 2008 and in 2009 visited the Moscow International Film Festival, again according to official statements of its President, to 100 thousand people. Do not believe me - check all that easy to find online. I myself have a couple of years in the newspaper expressed its bewilderment at so strange, so feverish, spasmodic development of the festival. But its leaders and do not remember what they report a year ago. They halve the number of viewers of the festival compared to last year and did not even notice it.

We see 380 movies, 60 000 spectators, sessions took place 488. Perform simple calculations and you get that at a session an average of 123 people were .... Is it a new triumph? At half-empty, it turns out, the halls?

In practice, the occupancy of the room was quite decent, for many of the films was not hit, the competitive program, although it was the weakest in recent years, still included a couple of good films.

However, this is an empty exercise - count, once it comes to MIFF, headed by the MNF. We are once again familiar, but very messy rubbing points. A People all hawala but praises.

For comparison, the Toronto festival is visited by 350,000 viewers, though the city is 12 times less than in Moscow. In Karlovy Vary, in a population of 17 thousand people in 2007, sold 45 000 tickets in 2010 - already 54 000. I is the fact that Moscow and its spectator capacity at the skillful conduct of the case are available at all different scales.


And more. "People were dying in the Hall movie, watch movies there - it was an exploit and torture at the same time. The audience leaves fanning himself, there was a feeling that you are among the butterflies, who wanted to fly" - complained Mikhalkov at the briefing. But for some reason not explained by someone in the House of Cinema will not work long-conditioners, who brought the economy of the Union of Cinematographers to this state. The explanation is simple: peeling walls, falling plaster, the complete devastation really need Mikhalkov, to prove that it is time to demolish it. Members of the Union of Cinematographers resist: a long time do not believe Mikhalkov and believe that this place will be built next business center, where the House of Cinema will be the poor relation.
Therefore, there is desolation - my mother was!
This is the question about the destructive role of personality in history.
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