Valeria Gai Germanicus is a young, but already buzzing director. She has won several prestigious awards, her films are controversial among viewers and film critics.
Guy Germanicus's track record includes nine released films of various sizes, including television series, and one is on the way. In four of them, she acted as a director and screenwriter. However, from the entire list, perhaps, two films deserve the most attention: the full-length film "Everyone will die, but I will stay" and the series "School" which echoes it.
At first, in 2008, a wave of indignation, and somewhere approval, rose in the ranks of the audience in connection with the release of the film "Everyone will die, but I will stay." A hypernaturalistic picture (however, opponents argue that there is no naturalism in it) tells about the everyday life of an ordinary provincial school. Girls walk, drink alcohol and try cigarettes, dream of boys and paint romantic pictures of them losing their virginity. In the world of Guy Germanicus, all this "smacks" of Balabanov with his "Cargo 200": the same uncomfortable gloomy courtyards, concrete high-rise buildings and their primitive inhabitants. The public split in two. Some viewers scold the picture for exaggerated "dirt", some, on the contrary, agree with a similar vision of reality. One way or another, Guy Germanicus managed to shock the audience.
The second attempt was in a sense even more successful, since the director enlisted the support of Channel One, which actively advertised her series School. Techniques are partly borrowed from the previous film, shooting sometimes resembles a documentary or amateur. Heroes-tenth graders speak in the "yard" language. However, Germanicus herself, adhering to an informal style in her work and lifestyle, explained that in this way she expressed the human relationship between adolescents, in which there is a lot of kindness and sensuality. The series aired on Channel One in 2010.
From the next film, viewers also expect heated discussions. In 2012, the film "Yes and Yes" should be released. The only thing known about the film is that it will be an independent film, filmed, according to the director, “for the soul”. The filming will be attended by artists and musicians, as well as the actress Agniya Kuznetsova, famous for Balabanov's painting “Cargo 200”.
