It Seems…
Original title: Кажется это…
Get ten girls in a month — street pickup for aces only. Maxim is one of them; days left, and only one girl short of the bet.
It Seems… (Кажется это…; Vimeo EN title “It seems like”) is a City Stories pickup comedy: Maxim, a practised street pick-up artist, chases a monthly quota of ten women. Vimeo card logline: “Get ten girls in the past month — a force of only aces street pickup. Maxim one of them, but not the only one. You’re just a few days before the end of the bet and just one girl.” Comic city approaches, night and day streets, glass-and-bench evenings, plaza walks, and doorstep talks; the ending pushes past conquest scorekeeping toward feeling and choice. Russian language; sound Valery Beskorsy; cast Max Lavrinenko, Ekaterina Naumenko, Kostya Chernysh (Kostet — lighter/watch bits, same universe as I’ve Ordered You Some Coffee and Dirty Russian), Sasha Gubsky. Key art: a lips-on-glass still.
Facts
- 2012
- 28m (28 min)
- Short · Comedy · City Stories
- Comedy, Short, Romance, City Stories, Ukrainian cinema, Independent
- Russian
- Kharkiv; Ukraine
- Sasha Poberailo
Themes
Quantity vs feeling
The ten-women bet is comic engine and moral test — conquest metrics fail as a measure of attachment.
Pickup as performance
Street technique, lines, and status play in public space — comedy of method more than of “winning.”
Days left on the clock
Vimeo logline stresses the deadline: few days, one girl short — pressure comedy as well as flirtation.
City Stories ensemble
Recurring faces (Kostet cameos) stitch the short into a shared urban world rather than a one-off gag.
Characters
Maxim
Street pickup “ace” chasing the monthly quota — comic ambition against actual attachment and the clock.
Women of the month (ensemble)
Targets and counter-forces of the bet — series of encounters across day streets and night glass.
Kostet
Lighter / watch scenes — same character from I’ve Ordered You Some Coffee, later Dirty Russian lead.
- Sasha Poberailo
- Sasha Poberailo
- Sasha Poberailo
- Sasha Poberailo
- Sasha Poberailo
- Valery Beskorsy
- Max Lavrinenko
- Ekaterina Naumenko
- Kostya Chernysh
- Sasha Gubsky
It Seems · It seems like · Кажется это · pickup · City Stories · comedy · Kostet · Maxim · 2012 · Vimeo
Scene map · 5
The bet / clock
Ten-in-a-month rule and the last days — setup of pressure comedy.
Night glass & bench
City lights, woman on a metal bench by glass — evening register of the chase.
Day plaza approaches
Phone booths, shop signs, floral dress walking away — street pickup geography.
Doorstep / smile
Close talk and laughter in a stairwell or doorway — intimacy that may break the score.
Reversal
Ending that revalues feeling over the count.
