"decadent" films

[Elena Gapova]

There is a 1989 (?) film "Gospodin oformitel'; the central character is a 19hundred and smth. artist, living between his artistic decadent world of St. Petersburg and the city's slums where he falls in love with a teenage girl dying from TB. When several years later he meets an exact copy of the girl (even the dresses in the closet are the same), who died, as the wife of some rich butthead, it is not really clear (either to the viewer or to the artist himself) what is real and what is the product of the artist's cocained mind.

I could not think of a better "sample" of decadence if this is treated as a particular (artistic) trend of a particular period.
Elena Gapova

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