Celestial wives of Meadow Mari (Nebesnye zheny lugovykh mari) (2012)

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The Mari are a Russian ethnic group of Finnish-Hungarian origin, who live on the shores of the Volga in western Russia and continue to keep alive the pagan customs of their ancestors. The film is made up of twenty-nine vignettes focusing on the sex life of a group of Mari women and recreating a distinctive world of magical realism, in which female fertility, beauty and happiness are the driving forces, and where a woman’s life is prescribed by folkloric beliefs – from the smell that will confirm that her husband is being unfaithful, to the phallic-shaped mushroom that will help her choose the ideal husband.