Moscow is full of announcements of "Gentleman Jack". They come from best known criticists the Muscovites that primarily cultivated more trivial themes.

I care little for cheap publicity, but the theme obliges me to form up an utterance that is tightly connected to my former practice in feature genres. My angle is neither Oriental nor Western. My sketchery of vivid remembrances sounds wothier than outer impressions of a sufficiently trite screen plot.

Actually we can easily associate this plot with Ann Leaster, or perhaps writers as Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, or even Virginia Wolfe; the scale matters little. Capacities and modes of being lurk and get erased or partially evaporated, blurred, etc.

I teach theory and history of drama at the largest thestrical institute of entire Eastern Europe and sometimes encounter worthy subjects for digesting the theme of daily interchanging masks. Some devices traditionally rule, and at the film they are also properly engaged. That is all I can freely admit here.

But once I had a chance to hold personal dialogs with the Californian actresses, who starred at the chief roles. Our brief remarks were constructed upon vivid mutual reactions and impressions. The film was at postproductional stage already. I recall them as spontaneous playrights for our dialogs, proficient at communicating. More of my remembrances, will seemingly appear later, detailes and of sparks... 

A stroke for an essay, by Anna Polibina-Polansky. November, 2021 - July, 2023, Moscow