Old Movie... by Katerina Lomonosov

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Frankly, I don't see an old movie. Unless we are talking about Fellini. Maybe "Juliet of the Spirits." Which I don't count as an old movie. An Absurdist or Surrealist play--yes. This looks more like a stage set than a movie set. Whatever it is supposed to be it is nicely done. It hangs together very well to create a mysterious story. The lighting is perfect. The woman is perfect. The fog is perfect. So what is the story? She is leaving her weird husband because she is tired of sleeping on a bed without a mattress. But one shoe is off. She has second thoughts. Maybe sleeping on a bed without a mattress isn't such a bad thing after all. The existential problem of anguish and despair! And the bed creaks without a mattress. All night it creaks. The neighbors complain. Think you got problems, she tells them.

The photograph is a brilliant little fantasy. It goes to show: If you want to do photographic fiction go all the way.

If this is fiction photography then why not... the set up, the atmosphere, the colors and lighting make it a superb shot. I think it's an excellent construction and execution and the work is quite inspiring. Alex brilliant comment made me smile and reminded me of another squeaking bed in Visconti's film the leopard magnificently played by Burt Lancaster. Katarina keep your inspiration flowing, you are a real artist and best wishes. Bachir

Where do I go? Where & who can I turn to next? A feeling of despair & all is lost comes across as well as a bit of fear of the uncertain. Nicely executed shot.
And no, I don't give a damned if it was staged. Some times these POW's are nitpicked until they are shredded

This picture tells a story...and this is, what I particularly like. Best regards, Olaf

I find it more style than substance. It's not my cup of tea. I, too, like fiction, but fiction stretches from Dickens to Harlequin romances and is sometimes more picturesque than gripping.

I find this photograph wildly funny. Bed.

I'm not seeing Movie, I'm seeing Theater. If nothing else, the square format immediately dispells any notion in my head that I'm looking at something intended to evoke cinema or anything related to it. But I'm definitely having flashbacks to some of my set-building and lighting design classes, and the many one-man/women shows, experimental theater workshops, and the like. Plenty of atmosphere and mood, carefully lit and seriously undertaken, but it's not clear where it's going, exactly.

This is a nicely done, moody shot that does seem to have that self consciousness that we expect more from the theatrical than the cinematic, but I am not connecting with a story here. Maybe it is trying a bit too hard.

While I like the radiator in the background to help define the otherwise nebulous space, I don't know that the way it lines up with the briefcase works very well for me. It ends up not only defining the space but pulling it forward as such mergers often do. I think it might have been more effective if it had been a bit more of a "discovery" as we surveyed the scene.

Nicely done but I ended up pretty much where Fred and Matt did.