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Bimmer (Бумер) Review

Posted by Todd Brown at 10:35am.

Posted in Film & DVD Reviews , Drama, Action, Continental Europe & Russia.

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What follows is not a full review per se but a program guide entry I wrote while trying to land Russian crime film Бумер for a festival I was working with. Thanks to some shifting rights issues we ended up losing the film but this is far too good a picture to say nothing about. Plus Yuric asked me to. Someone out there pick this and it’s sequel up for an English subtitled release, please.

Late night, a Moscow back alley. A white Mercedes rolls up silently, discharging a pair of black clad men who circle the BMW parked in the alleyway like vultures, discussing whether they should burn or steal it. And so we enter the world of Bimmer, a film hailed for its realistic portrayal of Moscow’s underworld, a place where only the strongest survive; everyone is in the game; corruption reaches all the way to the top and impoverished hordes scurry around the edges looking for a scrap to eat. Bimmer follows a quartet of low grade mobsters, the operators of a car theft ring whose lives are turned upside down when one of their number carelessly insults a larger, more organized, more vicious gang of mobsters. His car is stolen, he is beaten, the group is challenged and in the resultant scrap one of their number develops an itchy trigger finger, someone is killed and the group is forced to flee, on the run from both mob and police.

Much like Refn’s Pusher films or Kitano’s Sonatine, Bimmer is a crime film far more concerned with the criminals and criminal culture than it is with the crimes themselves. Like those films most of the run time is devoted to day to day existence, the overwhelming urge to simply survive. This is a film about character more than crime, a film that repeatedly jumps forward and back in time, flashing both to the causes and consequences of the quartet’s actions. While most Russian genre film aims to prove that Russia can rival America in terms of style and splashy effects Bimmer places its characters squarely in the midst of a Russia decayed and broken down, a place ruled by desperation. It is an entirely glamour-free depiction of the country, one that rings remarkably true. As a result this is a film that lingers well beyond its ironic, bloody conclusion.

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Reader Comments

  1. KellyS 08/20/2006 @ 2:26pm

    This sounds cool. Be sure to report a DVD when you hear of one.

  2. jon pais 08/20/2006 @ 9:27pm

    Second that

  3. Ryan 08/20/2006 @ 10:29pm

    Thirded. I’ve been waiting for a release of Bimmer and a handlful of other russian movies with english subs.

  4. Todd Brown 08/21/2006 @ 4:19am

    People looking for subbed Russian discs, let me know ... the guys from AllDVD are starting to pick up North American rights for films people are interested in having here ...

  5. danko 08/21/2006 @ 7:59am

    hey bimmer films need to be released with subs. Also ohotanapiranju would be excellent! Infact any of the films todd mentioned in the article http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/005859.html

  6. Task 08/26/2006 @ 10:20pm

    I just bought this movie, and I dont speak Russian. Its hard to follow =) A subtitled version would rock.

  7. Tuan Jim 02/02/2007 @ 5:54am

    Just finished the R3 Singapore disc (http://www.moviexclusive.com/estore/index.php?productID=179)—good quality overall barring a few subtitle typos and some dialog volume issues in a couple small spots. Glad to finally have a chance to see this. Hopefully they’ll pick up the sequel soon too. Interesting road movie format, and definitely an eye-opening view of contemporary Russia outside Moscow.

  8. hakemina 03/17/2007 @ 11:43pm

    Any signs of a Bimmer 2 dvd relese with subs or has anywhere picked it up?? Or any of the other Russian films that twitch has featured ( turkish gambit, pobeg etc. )?

  9. hakemina 03/18/2007 @ 12:13am

    Its very frustrating seeing all these excellent russian films featured, but none of them ever get released on dvd with subtitles, and no one outside of Russia picks up the films for subbed release :(

  10. wetwendy 05/13/2007 @ 2:40pm

    I just saw this film, its brilliant!, The end is very real and unhollywood like, I also really liked the soundtrack. Im Dying to see the sequel!! But cant find a dvd with subtitles. Does anyone know where I find a subtitled dvd of the sequel?

    Is there a review on the sequel on this site anywhere? I cant find one.

  11. wetwendy 05/13/2007 @ 2:53pm

    I just saw this film, its brilliant!, The end is very real and unhollywood like, I also really liked the soundtrack. Im Dying to see the sequel!! But cant find a dvd with subtitles. Does anyone know where I find a subtitled dvd of the sequel?

    Is there a review on the sequel on this site anywhere? I cant find one.

  12. pussylips 05/26/2007 @ 10:19am

    Will twitch be reviewing Bimmer 2? DVD ? with Subs? where? when? please?
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