Anna matison: director, screenwriter and producer rolled into one

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Anna Matison. This name has recently often flashed on the pages of the yellow press due to the close relationship between the director and the country-famous actor Sergei Bezrukov. What else is remarkable about Mathison's personality and what directorial work can Anna be proud of?

Anna matison: biography. Early years

The fate of Mathison was very unpredictable. It would seem that a girl who does not have a directing or screenwriting education should not have entered the world of big cinema. But it turned out quite the opposite.

Anna Matison was born in distant Irkutsk. She has two brothers - Timothy and Leonid. Little is known about the girl's school hobbies, but after graduating from school she entered Irkutsk State University for a speci alty that had nothing to do with cinema.

Studying was easy for Anna, so she simultaneously decided to get a job at a local TV company. By the time it was time to graduate, Mathison was already a senior program broadcast producer. It so happened that at that time she was the only producerof such a level in Russia, which is not yet 25 years old.

In 2004, Mathison co-founded REC.production, which produced promotional films and videos. It was then that the truth was revealed to the young producer that she was not very interested in advertising, but it attracted great cinema.

Moving to Moscow

At the age of 25, Anna Mathison "made a deed" and went to Moscow to get a second higher education: she became a student at the screenwriting department of VGIK. By the way, the director graduated from VGIK in 2013 with honors.

The girl understood that she needed to start somewhere, so she created a script based on the work of Yevgeny Grishkovets “Mood has improved” and shot a short film. The famous actor and playwright was interested in this work, and he got in touch with Anna. As a result, in 2011, Mathison's debut feature film "Satisfaction" was released, in which Grishkovets not only starred, but also wrote the script in collaboration with Anna.

According to the plot of the film, two men who love the same woman gather in the same restaurant and drink there from evening to morning. First, they try to “divide” the woman among themselves, then they realize that they don’t love her at all, and move on to more philosophical topics for conversation. The film has a lot of dialogue but little action. That is why he was criticized by professional playwrights and directors.

Film scripts and directorial work

Anna Mathison was not embarrassed by the criticism. Togetherwith Evgeny Grishkovets they continue to cooperate to this day. The result of their collaboration was a documentary series called "Without a script", a series of music videos. Mathison and Grishkovets also wrote two plays: "Home" and "Weekend". The play "Weekend" was staged in several theaters in Russia, as well as theaters in the near abroad.

Mathison took part in writing the script for the films Yolki-2, Through the Eyes of a Dog, Yolki-3, Milky Way, Yolki 1914. Mathison also made many documentaries: "Musician", dedicated to the work of Denis Matsuev, as well as a number of films about conductor Valery Gergiev, composers Shchedrin, Prokofiev, Berlioz and choirmaster Mikhail Turetsky.

Milky Way

Director Anna Mathison in 2015 began filming the film "Milky Way". There is a lot of hype around the film, since not only famous actors like Sergei Bezrukov and Marina Alexandrova will appear in it, but also pianist Denis Matsuev. The film will be released in 2016

Mathison says that this film should remind the viewer of the famous "Irony of Fate …". At the very least, she tries to do everything possible for this. When the director was asked if the famous musician Matsuev was coping with his duties, Anna assured her that she was lucky with Denis: he feels the mise-en-scene and the camera well. All the action in the film takes place on New Year's Eve in Irkutsk. And Matsuev, as you know, comes from these parts.

In addition to such well-known personalities as Bezrukov and Matsuev, the project involvedValentin Gaft, Marina Aleksandrova and even Vladimir Menshov.

Anna Mathison: personal life

Mathison is not very open about his personal life. And even when she and Bezrukov were filmed on camera at the moment when they were walking hand in hand in Moscow, and then they posted this video on the Internet, nothing changed: both Bezrukov and Mathison were silent about their relationship. It is only known that Sergei really left the family and no longer lives with Irina Bezrukova.

Director Anna Mathison speaks only positively about the actor in her interviews. She admitted that she sharpened the main role in the Milky Way just for him. Moreover, it is known that Bezrukov will star in two more of her projects - the historical film "Wait for Spring" and the biopic "Baryshnikov".

This is how the young director is slowly and surely conquering the cinematographic space of the Russian Federation. One can only wonder how this fragile girl finds the strength to manage the complex processes of filming.