Caught between emergency calls, alcohol-fueled off-shifts, and search for a meaning in life, Oleg and Katya have to find the binding force that keeps them together.

Boris Khlebnikov's Arrhythmia, as well as A Long and Happy Life (Dolgaia i schastlivaia zhizn’, 2012), are about understanding, and about the alienation of modern man, about a kind of intolerance.

[5] The documentary stylistics of the wandering camera, the almost natural lighting, the lack of accompanying music form the brush that creates this lively and sincere portrait of a man.

The truth lies in the severity of social and moral conflicts, in their clash and in the absence of smoothed corners of urgent contemporary issues, which incidentally are shown very delicately and without excessive hyperbolization or exaggeration.

Therefore, the “trembling” camera and the sometimes ragged editing are carefully arranged accents by the director, who naturally focuses the viewer's attention on sincerity and genuine emotions.

[9] The Karlovy Vary Film also review that the crema man present the “breakdown of allyship between them is encapsulated in a series of utterly believable interactions.” [10] Alexandra Porshneva reviewed that "The notorious subject of love that long ago turned into cheap boudoir clichés is saturated with the strongest images and highlighted by complex, subtle moments of pain.

We may contrast this scene with the previous one, showing the intimate affinity of husband and wife in the kitchen, which demonstrates close physical contact but, in fact, reveals complete alienation.

Here is the effect of contradiction of action and feeling, which helps transmit the image of boundless love for a neighbor, for business, for life—as bright and accurate as possible.

It is important to feel the autumn air of a provincial city through a film: so simple and real, a bit cold due to the grey color of the new buildings.

For a moment, even the cinematic space seemed more real than life, but after returning to the gloss of cyclic reality this viewer still wanted to get sick with arrhythmia again.

"[11] In June 2017, Arrhythmia won the Grand Prix, Best Actor (Aleksander Yatsenko) and the Audience Award at the Kinotavr festival in Sochi, Russia.