In Forty Shades of Blue, writer/director Ira Sachs takes three archetypes--temperamental artist, trophy wife, and brooding writer--and turns them into real people. Alan (Rip Torn, The Larry Sanders Show), producer of numerous R&B hits, is a Memphis legend in the Sam Phillips mold. On a trip to Russia a few years ago, he met the much younger Laura (Dina Korzun, Last Resort), ...
Fil'm "o tjazhkoj sud'be letchika, spisannogo v chistuju, no ne utrativshego sposobnost' letat', a takzhe o muzhskoj solidarnosti, skreplennoj nacional'nymi zastolzhnymi tradicijami, o dvuh pravdah - muzhskoj i zhenskoj, i o ljubvi, kotoraja vseh pomirit."