Don Juan (2015) [N/A]
Featuring:
Oleg Maximov, Marina Ivanovna Maximova, Mariya Fedorovna Vdovina
Written by:
Jerzy Sladkowski
Directed by:
Jerzy Sladkowski
Release Date:
December 31, 2015
Original Title:
Don Juan
Genres:
Documentary
Production Countries:
Finland | Sweden
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 92
Twenty-two-year-old Oleg doesn’t live up to his mother Marina’s idea of a real man. She thinks he’s an autistic loafer. He’s enrolled at the University of Nizhny Novgorod and is supposed to be watching online lectures, but his mother says all he actually does is hang around watching TV. Oleg doesn’t have any need for friendships, either. Marina wants him to improve his life and subjects him to a series of unconventional treatments. In one particularly uncomfortable scene, we see the therapist riding him as if he were a horse. Another psychiatrist tells Oleg how useless he is and that he will always be alone. Strangely enough the camera seems to be welcome everywhere, and it closely follows these dramatic developments.
This is story about Oleg, a young man trapped by autism, his fight to become more "normal" and his mother that is encouraging him in this painful path, sometimes with very painful words... Director shows in magnificent way many different methods and therapies that Oleg went through, but focuses is on the one most interesting for Oleg - playing in small theater. This psychodrama helps Oleg to become more confident in his wish to find girlfriend.
