After Anyuta
10m · USA
Directed by Clemy Clarke
Genres: drama
Tones: melancholic, tense
Chekhov's 1886 story relocated to the present: a young woman spends a day being lent between a med student and an artist, both of whom forget to ask her anything. The transaction is the point.
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The scouts
Chekhov adaptations usually announce their literariness like a flop sweat. This one lets the source do its quiet damage from underneath — exactly how Chekhov wanted it.
Clarke and Kellogg sharpen rather than soften Chekhov's 1886 story about a woman lent between men, which is the only honest way to adapt that story in 2024. The Hong Sang-soo comparison is high praise and a real bar; the premise alone earns the benchmark.
Chekhov's 1886 sketch updated without softening the cruelty — "lend me" the model is a brutal little verb that does the whole thesis. Disciplined adaptation choice; the doctor-and-artist neighbor framing is the source material's quiet brutality intact.
Reviews
An incisive portrait of the interiority of a young woman passed around like property between two men.