The echo of the thunder will not be overwhelmed soon. The artwork dedicated to Juris Kulakov is the ardent review of review / day

Rock bands of composer Juris Kulakova and his Thunder Songs for an adult Latvian are about the same status as most English – from a brave football fan to retired – The beatles and The Rolling Stones compositions. Both of these groups were close to Kulakov, and he did not hide it in a conversation in one of the last years of his life admitting that songs Middle time The most direct source of inspiration is Rolling stones hits Brown Sugarbut Beans He once arranged the orchestra and also conducted. He did it well, as the conductor of the brass and stage orchestras was the profession obtained at the Latvian Academy of Music (then at the Latvian State Conservatoire). A person's life must be viewed as a whole and there is no insignificant fact. This is what Elizabeth Gricmane, directed by Juris Kulakov, has been told recently on Latvian cinema screens Environmental Film Studies full -length documentary Works of art occur in torment.

Some time still so

In today's world, the increasing dominant tendency to divide everything into small pieces is contrary to the eternal truth that man is everything he reminds of the limited presence of his time. The way he speaks and laughs at how he looks and smells, how to go or drive a car that he meets and avoids what he breathes, eats and drinks, which, using congenital or lifelong skills, leaves behind him in a complete or unfinished way. Juris Kulakovs said that a person is not tired of what he does, but from what he does, remembers director Elizabeth Gricman.

The character of the film himself again confirms it in an episode, after the severe health crisis in front of the camera camera, Justine and the grandchild, say that it was from recycling. Of course, given Kulakov's unpacked bohemian lifestyle, every movie viewer in the face of this episode instantly stings a smine, which means: stories, stories – we already know how you recycled. Nick Matveyev once laughed at the event. Come to the rehearsal at the Daile Theater, where Kulakov is already swinging at the piano, who welcomed him and offered a big plastic bottle saying: You think it's ordinary water? Not Vella!

This is a wine with carbonated mineral water – half – you can drink, and you know what's best? Don't be at all! It all directly echoes the title of the movie Artworks arise in torment (Mara Melgalva's poetry row Thunder in the song) and Jura said about fatigue that can only be cured by satisfaction for the work done. The rest just seems to heal.

Great ideas can be raised by you in the seventh or thirty -third sky, but you can also run there if they are not realized and you fall into the ground. If you are no longer moving your wings, but hold on, you are still planning for a while, but if the wings are collapsed when you return the power of the earth, you fall like a stone. If you then get out, get the next option, but everything has your own limit.

Fragile

Films about recent people who have gone to the most of the three ditches are able to steal and will not be out of it anymore. One option is the appointment of the heroes in the saint, holding on to the principle of good or nothing. The other variant is the variant of the mourning in the veil so that the viewer feels like a funeral while watching the movie. And the third, which would be particularly possible in the case of Juris Kulakov, is to emphasize the hero's bohemian and unpredictable lifestyle, so that everyone becomes more than clear that you don't need to live like this and you are guilty.

The film's director Elizabeth Gricmane, with the hero's confidence, is particularly felt when he is in the frame -, to find and observe the fragile border to balance between all three of the above ditches, and to create a material story of the real and only Jura Kulakov. The scene is touching in which Juris sings at the piano himself – he recalls a similar episode with Raimonds Paul from Ivars Selecka's films Maestro without a pair (1985). Another archive find is a snippet of a television broadcast in which Juris sings in the presence of Raimonds Paul Lora – One of the songs of Edgar Liepins – full of excitement and loosening that he could once see Thunder Concerts when he took the guitar in his hands.

Cannot compare incomparable things, but similarly successful Kulakov's presence had been able to conjure up too Thunder For the perfect musician Reinis Sējāns, producing last year Arena Riga a concert that has happened The heart as a thunderard three months after the composer and group Thunder The leader's departure, and it did not require a memorial concert at any moment. The applause deserves both of these events – both a concert and a movie – and the feeling is uplifting, not sad. About the fact that we have hit this time when it was possible to experience it together.

An episode by the sea

When Environmental Film Studies The creator and producer Uldis Cekulis has announced the idea of ​​making a documentary about Kulakov, none of the experienced directors have immediately got this not easy job. The young director Elizabeth Gricman wanted, but was shy about offering his candidacy right away, because he felt too green, even though he realized that he wanted, given the teacher Peter Krilov, the Latvian Academy of Culture, what people are the most grateful documentaries, and Kulakov perfectly answered all the prerequisites. Then, most likely, the intuition – Uldis Cekulis himself offered to make a film directly for Elizabeth, and she immediately agreed. So six years ago, the admission group, according to Kulakov's last wife Laura, became almost their family members, along with support even in the most severe moments, but the filmmakers were quite sensitive, including the film, and then not in self -scandality.

The most glamorous are not successful « yellow » shots, but staged episodes. One is in the introduction – Juris acts with synthesizers in Kaunas in the same arena as in 1982 Thunder Concerts – This has been a novelty in the past, even in the history of the history of the band. The surreal is the scene taken in the Curonian Dune with the waking of Jura in full of bottles thrown around and the « Theater » in the Dzintari Concert Hall, where Kulakov portrays being drunk, shaking on the stage with a bottle of wine and rejoice that the musicians come together and Wedding. The episode by the sea, which is only a tiny drop of us in front of us, is also strong. For some time, the drop to the surface of the water is still falling, and this is the time we have at our disposal to fill it. This is what Juris Kulakov's life tells us about this. I'm not going to predict because I'm not a film critic but wish this movie at least one Great Christopher Next year.