Biography
In the modern world, trying to free themselves from the framework, there are still the concepts of "male cinema" and "female cinema". We are not talking about genres or stereotypes that one more like militants like, and others are melodramas. And about the director's experience. If you adhere to these concepts, we can say that the brightest representative of the "Women's Cinema" in Russia is now Xenia Zueva. She removes very personal and, of course, heavy films that are highly valued at the Kinotavra.Childhood and youth
Ksenia Ivanovna Zueva was born on June 10, 1990 in Moscow, the capital of Russia, in the family of engineer and the teacher of the English language. Parents drove it to various sections and mugs, but the strongest director was bought to art. She attended children's art school. V. A. Serov and Children's Music and Choir School. I. I. Radchenko.
Over time, creativity has become not just a hobby for Ksenia, but the meaning of life. She successfully graduated from the Studio School at the Moscow Art Academic Theater (MCAT), then the Theater Institute. B. Shchukina at the State Academic Theater. E. Vakhtangov.
Personal life
In the 2010s, Eduard Chekmazov appeared in the personal life of Zueva - the actor known for the documentary series "Irckak". Despite the difference in 20 years, the spouses quite harmoniously looked at the red walkways and creative meetings. In 2014, the director gave her husband to the son of Paul.
For reasons known only to family close to the family, in 2017, Ksenia and Eduard Chekmazov were divorced. The process ended quickly. Since then, the director has attributed novels with many people of art. For example, with Andrei Zvyagintsev, who removed the sensational films "Leviafan" (2014) and "Nelyubov" (2017), or actor Pavel Tobakov.
Now Zueva has no relationship, as far as the instagram account and news on the Internet can be judged.
Films
In the middle of his teaching Ksenia, I realized that I unconsciously approached the choice of profession and that he sees himself not an actress, but director. Therefore, after the theatrical institute. B. Shchukina She entered the highest scriptwriters and directors to them. G. N. Delelia. Here Ksenia Zueva shot touching short films, including the sensational story about the girl and her mother's sick "Gel" (2015).Directed by the director, created in student years, tends to personal experiences and pain. This trend has been preserved and in its first full-length film "Close" (2017).
For the writing of the script to this film Zueyev took up back in 2012. Multiple and painfully corrected history was formed only in 2015. The director requested funding from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, but unsuccessfully. From the collapse of the never started career of the film player was saved by an independent producer of Ekaterina Mikhailov.
"Close" is the long chain of family (and not only) connections, where no one respects anyone and does not appreciate. Husband and wife contacted each other, so he started his mistress, and she breaks down on a teenage daughter. The girl, in turn, is so compacted in himself, which is rejoicing any attention. Her younger brother is a stercha, his best friend is a grandmother. And it is from grandmother that the story begins: Once, tired of the permanent worm of the house, she disappears.
The film "Close" debuted at the "Kinotavra", and did not come to large screens - a too specific story, which many spectators are regarded as "Chernukha". And Ksenia Zueva does not see anything dirty or unpleasant in his work.
"This is life," she explains shortly.The debut earned the high estimates of the "Kinotavra", the Award "Advance" from The Hollywood Reporter, the awards of the Festivals "Amur Autumn", "Fathers and Children", "Eight Women" and "Double Two". Inspired by success, Ksenia Zueva took up the following job. This time she mired in the problems of society even deeper - and again succeeded.
Ksenia Zueva now
At the "Kinotavra" of 2020, the premiere of the 2nd film Xenia Zueva "Intervention" took place. It is filled with all toxicity from which you can encounter in the modern world.
In the center of the plot - the provincial girl Masha (performed by Anna Chipovskaya), whose life is more like a nightmare. She works as a dancer in a nightclub to feed the alcoholic father, grandmother and younger brother. The heroine is squaring his health on loved ones, and there is no business close to it. They do not even pull out of the somnambulic state even what Masha coughes blood.
Does not give the necessary heat to Masha and her young man Gosh (performed by Pavel Popova). He is aggressive, often exhibits in relation to the beloved psychological and physical violence. And the girl perceives the shouts and fists of Goosh as a manifestation of power, so unconsciously looking for salvation from the cruelty of the surrounding world.
Once, on the speech, Masha falls without feelings and turns out to be on the operating table. Here she meets with a truly good man - cardiac surgery Matvey Sergeyevich (performed by Andris Keeshsa). They have a big difference in age, and the doctor is already a family man. But between them, the very clean and immaterial love arises, which Masha was looking for so long. However, these relationships are not good.
In an interview after the premiere at the "Kinotavra" Zueva, he said that all her paintings were personal, because they are written from the heart. She noted:
"Intervention" is a reflection of the state of my soul for a long period of life. "But what exactly said the director - about toxic relations or the love of man twice as older, - remains a mystery.
Ksenia wanted to fulfill the main role in the painting "Intervention", but once at the party I met Anna Chipovskaya. The girls agreed and the characters and worldview. Some dialogues in the film they fixed together, add scenes, and from some got rid of.
In 2020, the premiere of another project of Zueva - short films "Child" took place. The main roles in it were performed by Eduard and Paul Chekmazov, as well as Nina Gusev. The film tells about a woman who brings up a son alone. It breaks between the need to live for themselves, with love for her husband and liability for the child. Perhaps this is a fragment from the biography of Ksenia itself.
Filmography
Actress:
- 2012-2013 - "Anya"
- 2014 - "14 steps"
- 2016 - "Streloboscope"
- 2016 - "Waiting for Charlotte Cord"
- 2020 - "Conference"
- 2020 - "Handra"
Producer:
- 2015 - "Gel"
- 2017 - "Close"
- 2018 - "Flicker"
- 2019 - "Pavlovskaya Hospital"
- 2020 - "Intervention"
- 2018 - "Child"