Бегущая по волнам (1967)

It must be hard to accept, being an expert in some art like music and ignoring everything at a childish level and that is what will happen to the pianist Thomas Garvey; The lyricism of this work is latent from beginning to end because the romantic poetics that the protagonist needed to discover, is born one good night - and thus the reason for this plot - when he finds out that Liss and the places described by Alexander Grin do exist. in his stories. Not in vain - or maybe yes - he got off the train that would take him to fulfill another 20 concerts of a contract; Garvey rushed out and in the morning on the coast, on the seashore, is when he meets the beautiful Biche Seniel. Certainly the tone of the work borders on the fantastic story, beginning when he boards the anchored ship precisely called "Begushchaya po volnam" (Running on the waves) where he meets Captain Chez, who seems the ideal host if you wanted to enter a ship where they rule. the laws of Alice in Wonderland. After behaving somewhat hostile and repeating that his ship has no passengers, the captain will completely change when he hears the voice of the soul that Garvey supposedly heard to not continue with his routine. And so, after showing his first officer and others, he will read him the mantra with which he believes he has something in common with the new crew member of his boat: "Рано или поздно, под старость или в расцвете лет, несбывшееся зовет нас". (Sooner or later, in old age or in the prime of life, the dissatisfied calls us). But the fantasy aspect is also accentuated when the pianist, sent to shipwreck on a tiny raft to his fate, is sent to ostracism for rebelling against the captain who, hours before, surpassed himself with the young and pretty girl at the festivity and dance in which they shared aboard. , until he slaps her for no reason and it is precisely. Garvey with his single shadow on the high seas has the epiphany of Frezi Grant who curiously resembles (in fact it is the same character) Biche Seniel (Margarita Terekhova). He announces to him as the emissaries of Olympus or a mysterious apparition from the Bible, which at dawn will help him the steamer Mirok. The quality of the film is somewhat detracted by the fact that there are fake images or sequences such as a photomontage on the high seas in the shot of the steamship Mirok, when the pianist wakes up in the sunny morning and discovers that the blonde Daisy is watching him. But this is during the day, so he meets Dacey's uncle who is the captain, but when night falls, the crew sings to him with guitar like troubadours on deck in the middle of the voyage the story of Frezi Grant, daughter of the Australian caitan who was chasing as Ahab her dream until her daughter, Frezi jumped overboard after saying goodbye and since then she has taken care of the lonely sea lions. Upon reaching land, as I have already said, as in a fairy tale or the Wizard of Oz, he suddenly finds himself involved, without us knowing how, in a kind of nighttime mask parade and when Garvey chases him, because he thinks he recognizes Biche Senel In the crowd, when she takes off her mask, she turns out to be Daisy. The film in these last 20 minutes is visually attractive although it does not keep up with an intelligible plot; There is enough ambiguity but also jazzy music and shadows with dancers that only impresses the movement of the destiny of the apparently wandering Thomas Garvey who runs into Biche, only now he mistakes her for Daisy. And the fun and clowning of the film decreases in quality of the cohesion of the story but increases in that of the cinematography, especially when the histrionic Captain CHez reappears among the carnival crowd and, for a change, argues with Biche Seniel carrying a gun. Back to the story? reality or, infamy of the fairy tale that was only a surreal drink? Anyway, Captain Chez falls dead and the pianist and the beautiful Biche, including Captain Chez's First Officer or foolish Butler, are taken to the police station. It doesn't take long for them to be released; Also the one who pulled the butler's trigger, but the one Garvey always looked for - the reason why he entered Chez's ship at the beginning - and even dreamed of thinking was the fairy Frezi Grant, it was not Biche, but Daisy who reappears at the end. seeing him alone on the shore at the end of the film.