春明回家帮邻居子聪开门，两个熟悉的陌生人展开一场对话。

春明回家帮邻居子聪开门，两个熟悉的陌生人展开一场对话。

The first Russian emo-movie, Closed Spaces is a story about the newest generation of Russians. Having grown up in Russia's crazy 1990s, an era filled with constant and drastic change, these teenagers have no solid ground beneath their feet. They are trapped in a strange world in which their money-obsessed parents lead senseless lives and even kill each other. Vika is twenty years old. She has black fingernail polish, wears pink dresses, and is constantly depressed. While working at a pizza place, she gets an order for a pizza delivery from Venya, a strange twenty year old boy who lives all alone in a deserted apartment in the middle of Moscow. Venya suffers from agarophobia, the fear of open space. When Vika arrives Venya lets her in and locks the door behind her. The story begins.

Closed Circuit is structured, in one sense, as a straightforward commercial thriller, with a series of mysterious and bloody murders and a wide variety of potential suspect, each with a secret to hide. Its location and the crimes commited, however, deal with the nature of film itself - from the pictures on the screen to the administration of the cinema - and specifically with film as both a projected illusion and as an audience's temporary reality. 　　This central idea is ingeniously and diectly woven into the fabric of the film's story: a small audience file into the matinee in an Italian provincial town to watch a spaghetti western. Many of the audience are using the cinema as a refuge from an uncomfortable reality in the world outside an adukterous couple make a clandestine rendevous, a middle-aged homosexual attempts a furtive pick-up - but their escape, the film, the cinema, dramatically impinges upon their lives. The last reel is the classic Western shootout but as the gunman fires at the camera, a member of the audience slumps dead in his seat, a bullet hole in his chest. Chaos erupts, the police are called in, close the cinema and restage the crime. At exactly the same moment in the film, a second man dies.....

春明回家帮邻居子聪开门，两个熟悉的陌生人展开一场对话。

Don't bring demands here, you'll be sorely disappointed, The Enclosed Valley doesn't offer any instant gratification. There's no explicit narrative or story structure, it's burden-free; immortal. Allows you to just wander. The curiosity of being a child again, taking in your surroundings as if for the first time, yet the patience allotted with adulthood to veer past the obvious. And like a child, time stands still. It either registers or doesn't, there's no in-between. Nothing to debate or overanalyze. It has a rhythm if you're willing to dance.

Liliana (35), a poor girl who cannot adapt and find a job despite her university degree, lives at the expense of her blind uncle, together with her parents and sister. She has been a passionate fan of a famous Yugoslav musician since childhood, when she dreamed of meeting him for the first time. As Liliana grew up, this passion transformed into an obsession that took control of her life, constantly isolating her from other people. At one of the concerts held in her home town, Liliana tries to break through the crowd and instead of an autograph she gets a strong blow to her back, almost paralyzing her. In hospital, while browsing the internet, she finds out that that the musician’s health blossoms and that his love life is good, so she angrily curses him - if they can’t be bound by love, then he must experience the pain that she feels. Her connection with the musician seems to be stronger than her parents think, because she soon reads in the newspaper that the musician fell from a tree and had to undergo back surgery, associating his misfortune with the spells and curses she directed at him. Feeling responsible for what happened to the love of her life, Liliana tries to find a way to ask for his forgiveness, writing to his acquaintances on the internet, desperately seeking to connect to the musician, but no one wants to help her, considering her to be insane. The only person willing to help her in the attempt to contact the musician is Vera, a pop singer who collaborated with the musician in the past. Vera advises her to use her literary talent and write a book about her life to stand out from the endless group of fans. However, Liliana is unable to write a light and popular read with a message that everyone will be able to identify with, and disturbing details from her past, related to rape and attempted suicide, spring from her novel. Horrified by the things Liliana writes about, Vera forces her to throw out all the painful episodes from the book, under the pretext that nobody wants a sad woman as a partner. Convinced that she knows the recipe for success, Vera persistently tries to change Liliana according to her pattern, but the model of the artist-starlet with a promiscuous past does not seem appropriate for a girl with a lifetime bound by religious principles. Vera is hesitant about the reality that Liliana tries to process through her book because she recognises herself in Liliana’s tragic story and problems, which Liliana begins to realise when she discovers Vera’s past and experiences. The relationship of the two women, based on sincere compassion, becomes an increasingly violent game of power, a struggle to impose an identity that Vera skillfully hides behind her mask. Because of the feeling that this whole time Vera has led her into debauchery, Liliana’s hatred towards her becomes so strong that she wishes to curse her.

Don't bring demands here, you'll be sorely disappointed, The Enclosed Valley doesn't offer any instant gratification. There's no explicit narrative or story structure, it's burden-free; immortal. Allows you to just wander. The curiosity of being a child again, taking in your surroundings as if for the first time, yet the patience allotted with adulthood to veer past the obvious. And like a child, time stands still. It either registers or doesn't, there's no in-between. Nothing to debate or overanalyze. It has a rhythm if you're willing to dance.