Up There
A story of journeys and spaces: The journey from Russia to France... from school to church, between social hotels... The space between mother and daughter. Lucia, a Russian mother, and her 6 year-old…
Up There
A story of journeys and spaces: The journey from Russia to France... from school to church, between social hotels... The space between mother and daughter. Lucia, a Russian mother, and her 6 year-old daughter, Marussia, find themselves living on the streets of Paris. Not having a stable house, they sleep wherever they can - a night at a Russian priest's, another in a welfare facility, and even in a 4 star hotel. They live each day as if it were the day that could change their life, meeting different kinds of people, wandering aimlessly and waiting for something wonderful to happen to them. As their situation is not getting any better and they end up sleeping under a bridge, the Russian community decides to buy them a ticket back to Russia. Marussia revolts against her mother and runs away. She doesn't want to go back. And at the same time she wants to have a real childhood. What kind of decision is her mother ready to make? —Eva Pervolovici Lucia and her six-year-old daughter Marussia have been constantly on the move since the came from Moscow to Paris, searching for a place to spend the night, for a place to call home, running from each other and finally finding each other... —Anonymous A road movie set in a city, about the distance between a mother and her daughter. Lucia and her five-year-old daughter Marussia, immigrants from Russia, are always on the move, from one housing project to another, from one man to the next, looking for a place to spend the night, a place to call home, running away from each other and finally finding each other again... This drama is about the relationship between a daughter and a mother in which the roles constantly reverse, revealing the daughter's maternal feelings toward her mother, and the mother's filial - immature and irresponsible - affection toward her daughter. The tale of the Russian Cinderella ends here: salvation doesn't come in the form of Prince Charming and a better life, it comes as ordinary happiness in the tender moments the daughter and mother share together. —CTB.ru
Up There
Comedy,Drama,Fantasy
Film Details
A story of journeys and spaces: The journey from Russia to France... from school to church, between social hotels... The space between mother and daughter.
Lucia, a Russian mother, and her 6 year-old daughter, Marussia, find themselves living on the streets of Paris. Not having a stable house, they sleep wherever they can - a night at a Russian priest's, another in a welfare facility, and even in a 4 star hotel. They live each day as if it were the day that could change their life, meeting different kinds of people, wandering aimlessly and waiting for something wonderful to happen to them.
As their situation is not getting any better and they end up sleeping under a bridge, the Russian community decides to buy them a ticket back to Russia. Marussia revolts against her mother and runs away. She doesn't want to go back.
And at the same time she wants to have a real childhood. What kind of decision is her mother ready to make? —Eva Pervolovici Lucia and her six-year-old daughter Marussia have been constantly on the move since the came from Moscow to Paris, searching for a place to spend the night, for a place to call home, running from each other and finally finding each other... —Anonymous A road movie set in a city, about the distance between a mother and her daughter.
Lucia and her five-year-old daughter Marussia, immigrants from Russia, are always on the move, from one housing project to another, from one man to the next, looking for a place to spend the night, a place to call home, running away from each other and finally finding each other again... This drama is about the relationship between a daughter and a mother in which the roles constantly reverse, revealing the daughter's maternal feelings toward her mother, and the mother's filial - immature and irresponsible - affection toward her daughter. The tale of the Russian Cinderella ends here: salvation doesn't come in the form of Prince Charming and a better life, it comes as ordinary happiness in the tender moments the daughter and mother share together.
—CTB.ru.