Funeral Party
(Feature Film, Post-Production)
Alik has a gift for making friends and lovers, and he's not going to let dying stand in his way...
This boisterous screen adaptation of Russian award-winning writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya's darkly comic novel, The Funeral Party, introduces charismatic Alik and beautiful but distant Irina, emigres from St. Petersburg to New York City who share a poignant love story and a passionate secret that spans two continents and two decades.
When they rediscover each other one steamy summer after years apart, he's still a struggling painter and she now a high-powered attorney. Emotions run high and endless complications ensue as Alik, unfazed by a fatal illness, sets out to find a place for his renewed lover, Irina, and her rebellious teen daughter, Maya, in a life and loft already filled to bursting with his exotic waiflike wife, Nina, his earthy mistress, Valentina, and a host of colorful friends and freeloaders all inspired by their beloved Alik's artistic imagination and lifestyle. In these, his last carefree days, Alik comes to realize, through the celebration of the people surrounding him, that in truth his greatest canvas was the life he led...
