Bootleg versions are being screened after a Hollywood boycott over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
To avoid licencing issues, some cinemas have been sellingrevealed how, at one Moscow shopping centre where the film is being shown nearby, fans were left tickled pink by a giant fuchsia-coloured house, complete with matching furniture, popcorn and life-size cardboard cutouts of Barbie and just Ken.
One fan said: ‘People should have the right to choose what they watch. I think it’s good that Russian cinemas are able to show these films for us.’ Film critic Anton Dolin, the former editor of Iskusstvo Kino, one of Russia’s oldest and most popular film magazines, told theRussians are queueing up to see the unauthorised versions of the Barbie film is an example of the privileges they once enjoyed but are now deprived of, explained Dolin, who fled the country after being targeted by pro-war ultranationalists and now lives in Latvia.But Russian MP, Maria Butina, is not a fan of the film or the doll that inspired it.
She told the BBC: ‘I have issues with Barbie as a female form. Some girls – especially in their teens – try to be like a Barbie girl, and they exhaust their bodies.’
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