Anybody Seen My Girl? (2021)

Anybody Seen My Girl? feels special because it treats love not as a tidy memory but as a lingering conversation you can’t quite end, even when life insists you move on. Angelina Nikonova frames Kira’s story with a bruised, lyrical sincerity—shifting between the glow of bohemian early-’90s Saint Petersburg and the cooler distance of her later success—so the film plays like a confession written in the margins of a life that kept going. Anna Chipovskaya carries the ache with intelligence and restraint, while the romance remains intoxicating even as it’s shadowed by self-sabotage and grief. It’s not for viewers who want clean catharsis or polished melodrama, but if you’re drawn to thoughtful, emotionally honest dramas that sit with the messiness of devotion, this one stays with you.

Anybody Seen My Girl? is aiming for a moody, literary romance about grief and the way first love can haunt you for decades, set against a textured early-90s St. Petersburg art scene. The problem is it often plays like a glossy pop-biopic: big emotional beats and misery milestones arrive on schedule, but the film doesn’t always clarify who Kira truly is beyond her suffering, which can make the tragedy feel oddly distant. If you need tight character motivation and a focused through-line, the time jumps and melodrama may test your patience. Still, the atmosphere is strong and the performances carry a lot of the weight, so it can work if you’re in the mood for a sorrowful, impressionistic relationship portrait rather than a cleanly told love story.