Hello! I don't know if you're still active on this blog, but you asked about recommendations for summer movies with a melancholic air, and while I don't have many to offer myself, I would love to hear your own recommendations for movies within that genre! I stumbled upon your blog through the 100 Дней После Детства tag, a movie that is also very close to my heart.

Hi! thanks so much for your message 🦋 100 Days After Childhood is such a special movie and it’s so nice to hear from someone who loves it also. <3 As for summer movie recommendations hmm... my first thought was Tarkovsky’s films, which you probably already know if you’re interested in Russian movies but yeah! I think all his films but especially The Mirror and Ivan’s Childhood have a unique, dreamlike, wistful mood to them, and also nostalgic. To me a summer movie isn’t necessarily a plot set in summer but something where you can feel a warm atmosphere through the screen, memories about childhood, nostalgia, etc..

other movies i would recommend that I think are along the same lines are Badlands (1973), The Virgin Suicides (1999), Mustang (2015), La Collectionneuse (1967), Atonement (2007), Paris, Texas (1984), Black Orpheus (1959), L’avventura (1960)

I hope the rest of your summer is lovely 💫

One Hundred Days After Childhood, dir. Sergei Solovyov (1975)

One Hundred Days After Childhood, dir. Sergei Solovyov (1975)

One Hundred Days After Childhood, dir. Sergei Solovyov (1975)

One Hundred Days After Childhood, dir. Sergei Solovyov (1975)

One Hundred Days After Childhood, dir. Sergei Solovyov (1975)

One Hundred Days After Childhood, dir. Sergei Solovyov (1975)

if any of you have good summer movie recommendations drop them in the comments plsss🦋💙

One Hundred Days After Childhood, dir. Sergei Solovyov (1975)

The Juniper Tree, dir. Nietzchka Keene (1990)

The Juniper Tree, dir. Nietzchka Keene (1990)

The Juniper Tree, dir. Nietzchka Keene (1990)

Artistic freedom means that the amateur filmmaker is never forced to sacrifice visual drama and beauty to a stream of words…to the relentless activity and explanations of a plot…nor is the amateur production expected to return profit on a huge investment by holding the attention of a massive and motley audience for 90 minutes…Instead of trying to invent a plot that moves, use the movement of wind, or water, children, people, elevators, balls, etc. as a poem might celebrate these. And use your freedom to experiment with visual ideas; your mistakes will not get you fired.

Maya Deren (about the freedoms of independent cinema)

Carnival of Souls, dir. Herk Harvey (1962)

Carnival of Souls, dir. Herk Harvey (1962)

Helter Skelter, dir. Mika Ninagawa (2012)

Helter Skelter, dir. Mika Ninagawa (2012)