Strange things happen under the light of the full moon. ‘The structure of Day of the Full Moon is broken, as today’s life in Russia is broken. Pieces of the old Soviet life are linked together in a strange way with emerging non-Soviet elements. But both are difficult to recognise through the enormous number of changes during the period of transformation. The way in which the story is told is an attempt to unravel something that meanwhile remains hidden: to remember the old life, make guesses about the new one and understand how close these two really are to each other.’ (Film reporter Sergei Lavrentiev)îThe structure of Day of the Full Moon is reminiscent of the classic La ronde by Max Ophüls, but then with more than eighty characters. The camera glides from scene to scene, each time making another character the protagonist. The film is often enigmatic, ambiguous and has a magic charm.’This picture is an attempt to convey a sensation of life. If you meditate on what our life is, you can regard it as short fragments of scenes, people’s faces, often unfamiliar to you, snatches of conversations, fragments of memories. But the chaos has its own logic, some strange connection that is incomprehensible to us. We wanted to express those thoughts on the screen and it is up to you, dear viewers, to judge if we succeeded.’ (Karen Shaknazarov)
