At a crucial point in “Firebird,” two perfectly chiseled servicemen steal away from the Soviet Air Force base where they’re stationed for a skinny dip in the Baltic Sea. Behind craggy rocks and away from prying eyes, they kiss, before one gives the other a charged underwater handjob; as they jointly climax, director Peeter Rebane cuts to an image of two fighter jets blazing overhead, the lovers’ clenched moans drowned in a roaring sonic boom. Subtlety is in short supply in “Firebird,” a swooning gay romance that firmly supplants “Top Gun” as the queerest film ever set in the air force; it may even top Tony Scott’s closeted kitschfest for most phallic military imagery per frame.Firebird 2021 Full Movie Download
But if such isolated moments of hot-and-bothered vulgarity suggest a winking exercise in heightened horniness, “Firebird’s” story of forbidden love in an oppressive authoritarian regime is otherwise played, for want of a better word, very straight indeed. Based on the late Russian actor Sergey Fetisov’s memoirs, drawn from his time as a Cold War conscript, this British-Estonian co-production shoots for “Brokeback Mountain” levels of honest heartbreak in its depiction of a long-term romance between two male soulmates thwarted by the laws and mores of their era.That present-day Russia has scarcely moved on from this milieu lends additional political currency to a 1970s-set period piece that can hardly fail to move its audience on relatively old-fashioned terms: In his first narrative feature, Rebane speaks the language of classical melodrama when he’s not indulging in very softcore fantasy. He doesn’t speak it entirely fluently, however, just as the film’s script haltingly plays out in stiff, Russian-accented English, which can’t help but impose an air of phoniness on otherwise earnest proceedings.If that commercial gambit gives “Firebird” a distinct Europudding flavour, it does at least permit rising British star Tom Prior — who also takes co-writing and co-producing credits — to make a sympathetic impression as Fetisov’s fictionalized alter ego Sergey Serebrennikov. A sensitive young private nearing the end of his two-year conscription stint at the Haapsalu airbase in Soviet-occupied Estonia, he’s eager to leave military life behind to study drama in Moscow.
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