Red Dirt Revival

You I LoveDVD ~ Olga Stolpovskaya (Russia, 2004), Directors: Olga Stolpovskaja, Dmitry Troitsky; Main Cast: Damir Badmaev, Evgenij Korijakowskij, Lubov Tolkalina, Victor Sevidov. ~ Present-day Moscow is the setting for this film that examines money and materialism, mores and relationships as seen through the eyes of its principal characters. Vera (Lubov Tolkalina) is an ambitious and beautiful news anchor who manages to lose her pocketbook and gain a lover when advertising creative-genius Tim (Evgenij Korijakowskij) comes to her rescue and picks up more than her bill. ~ Soon the pair are an item, sharing steamy sex and copious amounts of food—particularly Granny Smith apples, which, in a clever homage to Adam and Eve, are munched after orgasm and also found woven subliminally into the bedspread. From the tight cut-a-ways that pepper their growing romance, the back-story of the serpent—Kalmyk-beauty Uloomji (Damir Badmaev)—brings him from the relative safety of his job as an animal keeper at the zoo to downtown Moscow where he quite literally falls into the ‘hood (Tim’s car) and soon uses his simple charm to snare Tim’s affection.