film profile], which proved a happy discovery in the 43rd Cinéma du Réel Festival’s French competition. The action unfolds in July 2018, in the French department of Landes - more specifically, in Hossegor – but a wholly Russian mindset appears to have taken over the region (and the film): "This vodka is amazing, it’s so easy to drink. This is the life! When you have a vodka with someone, you immediately understand what frame of mind they’re in".
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Established in the southwest of France over a half-century ago, amidst woodland peppered with pine and silver birch trees, Sokol’s holiday camp does far more than inspire vague reminiscences in Russian families exiled long-term in France. It promises chalets resembling Russian log huts, TVs tuned into Russia-24 news, menus offering plov, buckwheat kasha, herring, borscht with chicken blintzes, and apple pirojkis for dessert, not to mention zakouskis in the evening when rounds of vodka loosen tongues and hips while violins and balalaikas play into the night… And found not too far from here are beaches, the swelling sea, the towering waves of the Atlantic and opportunities to surf. It’s a small, summertime archipelago soothed by cicada song, where a bell rings to announce mealtimes and where children frolic, enjoying the greatest of freedom under the eye of their parents and grandparents.
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