If you want to feel incredibly good about your own messy family, you should watch House of Greed tonight. But if you hate slow, black-and-white Soviet misery where everyone is constantly screaming or weeping over money, please stay far away. It is basically a 90-minute parade of awful people being awful to each other ...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Aleksandr Ivanovsky
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"If you want to feel incredibly good about your own messy family, you should watch House of Greed tonight. But if you hate slow, black-and-white Soviet misery where everyone is constantly screaming or weeping over money, please stay far away. It is basically a 90-minute parade of awful people being awful to each other in dark, dusty rooms. You can almost smell the damp wallpaper. The movie is based on that old Saltykov-Shchedrin novel about the Golovlyov family, and boy, it does not skimp on th..."
Aleksandr Usachyov
Aleksandr Ivanovsky, Konstantin Derzhavin, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Soviet Union
