ON UPPER MASLOVKA: RUSSIAN CRITICS ON MIRONOV'S PERFORMANCE

The pairing-up of luminaries Freindlikh and Mironov ... is the lure that attracts special attention to this picture.
Kultura

[Mironov] here ... is on full-strength and at his skillful best.
Irina Liubarskaya
Vremya novostei, 2005

All is saved by the dazzling performance of the stellar duo – Freindlikh and Mironov.
Nelli Protorskaya
Tribuna-RT

The regal joust enacted by Mironov and Freindlikh hypnotizes.
Leonid Gomberg
Alef

Variations on the theme of "to love both young and old surrender" ... are brilliantly performed by the Freindlikh-Mironov duo.
Anastasia Belokurova
Courtesy of intermedia.ru, 2004

The nuances of human psychology in their full range ... are at [Alisa Freindlikh and Yevgeny Mironov's] beck and call.
Oksana Gavriushenko
Kultura, 2004

The duet of Alisa Freindlikh and Yevgeny Mironov in the Khoudyakov film ... epitomizes the triumph of the Russian school of acting.
Yekaterina Zoueva
Vyborg, 2005

Zhenya Mironov proves once again that despite his lack of movie-star glamour, he is Russia's number-one actor, the only man capable of capturing onscreen the gamut of subtlest emotions, hues and shades, able to sing the glory of love for the human being, for a woman and for life.
Igor Mikhailov
Courtesy of hghltd.yandex.net


[Translated by Vlada Chernomordik for the Yevgeny Mironov Official Website]