{"id":3552,"date":"2009-02-09T22:44:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T06:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2019-02-11T15:48:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T23:48:59","slug":"okean-mikhail-kosyrev-nesterov2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=3552","title":{"rendered":"Okean (Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov, 2008): Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Travis Rennaker<\/a>. Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.<\/p>\n

Add a Russian director in Cuba, with a cast from the\u00a0Caribbean and what do you get? Well the answer my friends is Ocean<\/a><\/em> (Kosyrev-Nesterov, 2008). We see each characters life through the lens of the ocean.\u00a0 Like the ever pounding surf crashing onto the island nation these characters lives roll on, until an incident happens and their lives crash, much like a waves, hence the allusion.<\/p>\n

Set in Cuba with a cast that speaks only Spanish, Ocean tells a tale of love and infatuation between and around a young fisherman Joel (Jorge Luis Castro). \u00a0He thinks he’s got it all. \u00a0He has the most beautiful girl in town as a lover, he works hard as a fisherman, and lives in seeming paradise with the land to feed him and the days to enjoy. \u00a0It can’t really get much better. \u00a0Until his girlfriend looses her infatuation with the life in their town and with Joel. \u00a0She opts to get married and move away from (Joel and the fishing village) to Havana. \u00a0Heart struck Joel moves to Havana and and is immediately sucked in by the lively city.\u00a0 With the help of some quick connections and nice people he is able to land on his feet, by starting a new job and trains to become a boxer. But Joel will never loose interest in his long lost love from his home town and that interest will lead him around like a dog on a leash.<\/p>\n

The cinematography is pretty stunning.\u00a0 We see constantly movement in Havana’s vibrant colors. This is due to Oleg Lukishyou as the cinematographer.\u00a0 Like the ocean there is never a lack of movement to be found. \u00a0Only slightly less\u00a0turbulent\u00a0waters.\u00a0 But movement is life, and we aren’t lacking for that in the ocean an in Ocean (2008)<\/p>\n

The movie flows like some ones life would, with little to no gaps in the timeline. The film rolls along like the waves on the ocean, reaching crests and troughs but always moving. \u00a0Like peoples lives, unless they are dead there will always be some type of movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Travis Rennaker. Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Add a Russian director in Cuba, with a cast from the\u00a0Caribbean and what do you get? Well the answer my friends is Ocean (Kosyrev-Nesterov, 2008). We see each characters life through the lens of the ocean.\u00a0 Like the ever pounding surf crashing onto the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44140,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions\/44140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}