‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ is one of those series to enjoy in small doses, its slow pace, the meticulous construction of the characters, the taste for details and extraordinary cinematography make it a quiet pleasure that is far from most existing products.
Set in the years after the Russian Revolution, it focuses on the figure of Count Alexander Ilych Rostov, an aristocrat whose relationship with a revolutionary poem saves him from death by execution. In exchange, he is condemned to live his entire life confined in a luxury hotel, where time seems to have frozen.
An excellent Ewan McGregorin one of the best roles of his life, manages to transmit a halo of hope within a world in which fear and repression are constantly present.
The great success of ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ is to portray revolutionary terror without hardly showing explicit violence and this is achieved through the numerous secondary characters who parade through the count’s life and who manage to draw a moral landscape rich in details. There is no pretense of historical rigor, In fact, the number of characters of color who appear in the work is striking (even as Stalin’s ministers) but there is a deliberate intention to confront the communist ideology with its contradictions.
The miniseries is presented as a story in which the count undergoes successive transformations and adapts to new situations without losing awareness of his social and moral condition. It is, as it was in his day ‘Life is beautiful’, a hymn to optimism and the best of the human condition, even in the most adverse situations.
‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ is on SkyShowtime and has 8 episodes
Is ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ worth seeing?
- Great performance by Ewan McGregor, he makes an a priori hateful character endearing.
- The secondary ones are in charge of driving the historical story.
- The dialogues are intelligent.
- Despite being limited to a very limited landscape, there is no feeling of suffocation or boredom.
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