On May 19, the online cinema KION starts showing the comedy-drama series "Clinic of Happiness". The idea of the tape belongs to the producer Igor Mishin, who had a hand in such high-profile projects as "Policeman from Rublyovka", "Treason", "Crystal" and "Without Borders"; Tatyana Artseulova was responsible for the script ("Swallow's Nest", "Bad Blood", "And yet I love ..."). In the director's chair - Alexander Kiriyenko, whose filmography includes the films "Crime", "My Children" and "Indie".
In the center of the plot - endocrinologist, founder of the "Clinic of Happiness" Alyona Lipnitskaya performed by Daria Moroz.
The institution run by the heroine fully justifies its name - it employs specialists who are necessary to resolve problems of a physiological or psychological nature and who are able to give patients the long-awaited happiness.
Doctors include a sexologist, gynecologist, psychotherapist, cardiologist and cosmetologist.
All of them are great professionals in their field and masterfully use their knowledge both at work and outside.
People come to the "Clinic of Happiness" for a variety of reasons, but they are all somehow connected with the desire of clients to find inner balance and improve their personal life.
Particular emphasis is placed on intimate issues.
Complaints of a sexual nature act as a kind of indicator that patients need help, but each time upon closer examination it becomes obvious that the true reasons for what is happening are somewhat deeper and more complex.
The Clinic of Happiness is a mixed-type series - it combines both vertical (when each episode is a complete story) and horizontal (with a story that gradually unfolds throughout the project) plots, and each of them is interesting in its own way.
The first type includes patient lines.
This part, most likely, will at least partially find a response from the audience: the problems of the clinic's clients are extremely realistic and at the same time not trivial (mainly due to the disclosure on the part of specialists of different profiles).
It is also interesting to observe the difficult process of making diagnoses.
However, as soon as the doctors get to the bottom of the truth, the patients practically disappear from the narrative - their miraculous recovery remains behind the scenes.
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Of course, in spite of the vitality, the successful elaboration of stories and the successful resolution of the most urgent psychological problems, the “Clinic of Life” will not become a guide to achieving personal happiness for anyone.
However, this series can push viewers to search for inner harmony: the example of the clinic's patients clearly demonstrates that any person can become happier, and it is never too late to stop putting up with unpleasant things and take a step towards a better life.
Even more exciting turned out to be a horizontal plot, dedicated primarily to the history of Alena Lipnitskaya, and also at times affecting the personal life of her colleagues.
Heroes try their best to make others happy, but often they themselves find themselves in difficult situations.
Their "symptoms" are not as obvious as in patients, but they are no less serious and are not treated by a return of libido.
This side of the plot is more dramatic - if the problems of patients are covered in a positive way, then, for example, the situation in which the heroine of Darya Moroz finds herself seems to be a dead end and arouses only sympathy.
There was also a place for sad irony.
So, the central characters turn out to be "shoemakers without boots" - according to the plot, the sexologist hates men, her gynecologist colleague, a man, is not interested in women, and Lipnitskaya herself, who strives to arrange a personal life for everyone, and her beloved husband lives in two families, and the son gets involved in a dubious relationship.
An important advantage of the series was the cast, impressive both with stardom and accurate fit into the characters of the characters.
Lipnitskaya's colleagues were played by Maxim Lagashkin ("Arrhythmia", "Let's get divorced!"), Anatoly Bely ("Metro", "Steel Butterfly"), Artyom Tkachenko ("Gogol. Beginning", "Vampires of the Middle Lane"), Anna Antonova (" Phantom "," Insomnia ") and Alina Alekseeva (" Nastya, pull yourself together! "," Olga ").
All of them are so organic in their images that it is almost impossible to imagine someone else in their place.
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More than others, the heroine of Anna Ukolova is remembered - a friend of Alena Lipnitskaya Venezuela, a spectacular and extraordinary woman.
She lived abroad for many years, but returned to Moscow and now hopes to have a child.
Venezuela is also not doing well with her health, and she will also need the help of the staff of the Clinic of Happiness.
The heroine constantly finds herself in comic (sometimes exaggerated comic) situations and is responsible for humor in the series.
In addition, each appearance of Anna Ukolova on the screen is intriguing due to extremely vivid images that emphasize the character's temperament.
"Clinic of Happiness" attracts with the abundance of recognizable life situations in which the heroes find themselves.
At the same time, even the most delicate topics on the screen are revealed honestly, frankly, but without unnecessary vulgarity - they all become for the heroes only an excuse to understand themselves.
It is also nice that, despite all the complexity and depth of the problems raised, the scriptwriters of the tape completely avoid moralizing and boring monologues - the story is revealed from different angles and is presented colorfully and with humor.