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Loveless (Nelyubov)
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Still living under the same roof, the Moscow couple of Boris and Zhenya is in the terrible final stages of a bitter divorce. Under those circumstances, as both have already found new partners, the insults pour down like rain in this toxic familial battle zone, always pivoting around the irresolvable and urgent matter of Alyosha's custody, their 12-year-old only son.
Unheard, unloved, and above all, unwanted, the introverted and unhappy boy feels that he is an intolerable burden, however, what his parents don't know is that he can hear every single word. As a result, when Boris and Zhenya finally realize that Alyosha has been missing for nearly two days, his mother calls the police for assistance.
At first, the police see this as the simple case of a runaway child and expect the boy to return home within a day or two. However, when Alexey does not return, then another supervisor takes over the case and promptly initiates a preliminary search for the boy by sending the parents to estranged relatives in the hope of locating him.
The failure of the police to find Alexey promptly escalates the search for him into an all out emergency missing persons search across the town and surrounding area, but it is already too late.
We are before a film that hits the conscience, that speaks to us of a morally ill society, of characters who are more pending to satisfy their needs than thinking about those people around them.
Texts: Núria Farré. facebook@cinemaperaestudiants.cat
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