"How Victor "Garlic" took Alex "Pin" to a home for the disabled". - is a deep look into the essence of human relationships, framed in the form of a road-movie along the roads of the Russian countryside. The director's handwriting, imbued with realism and black humour, leads to the creation of a film that seems so real that it is difficult to distinguish where the parable ends and real life begins.
The protagonist, Victor "Garlic", is in a tight embrace of failure and family problems. His dreams of a better life are embodied in his desire to take his father to a nursing home and take his inheritance - a flat, which seems to be the last thread connecting him to the past that remains in his memory.
The film's script mixes elements of satire and melodrama, telling of parallel worlds and clashes of different values. In such a mixed reality, Vityka finds himself between two fires: clashing with his own past, his father's clumsy legacy, and striving for a bright future with Lariska, his hope for happiness.
The actors' superb performances, especially the heroic portrayal of the father, play a key role in conveying the tragicomic nuances of the story. The film immerses the viewer in an irrepressible mixture of feelings, from laughter to deep reflections on life and family.
"How Victor "Garlic" took Alex "Pin" to a home for the disabled". - is an immersion into an unseemly but extremely realistic part of the world, where the comic and the sad mix. This film is about how laughter and pain, irony and tragedy coexist in our everyday lives, creating a unique and sometimes absurd world in which we all live.