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It was either over my head or the height of pretentiousness.
Alexander Sokurov
Filmography
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Alexandra
In a desolate, sun-scorched corner of the world, an elderly woman has come to see her beloved grandson, a young officer stationed at a remote military outpost. With the enemy just beyond the compound, she wanders the barracks, observing the routines of military life before making a sudden trip...Watch Movie
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Russian Ark
Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (THE SUN) broke boundaries with his dreamlike vision of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, RUSSIAN ARK. It's the first feature-length narrative film shot in a single take (on digital video, using a specially designed disc instead of tape). RUSSIAN ARK is shot...Watch Movie
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Whispering Pages
The pages that whisper through this brooding, beautiful tone poem are from nineteenth-century Russian literature, primarily Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. An anonymous man wanders through decomposing, fog-enshrouded catacombs and encounters a series of “the degraded and...Watch Movie
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Stone
If ever a film replicated the state of dreaming, STONE does. Which is not to say it is, in the classical sense, surreal; but it has the flow and fugitive feeling of a half-remembered reverie, full of mysteries, portents, inexplicable happenings, and chimerical objects. Set in (and filmed in the...Watch Movie
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Save and Protect
A retelling of Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" as a surreal story of universal suffering, the film emphasizes the heroine's internal transformation as she slowly loses her grip on reality. Her fascination with rich clothing and her almost childish desire to be lost in...Watch Movie
Genres
- Adaptation / Literary / Prose
- Avant-garde / Surrealistic
- Drama / Costume Drama
- Drama / Expedition
- Drama / Melodrama
- Drama / Realism / Docudrama
- Drama / Religious
- Drama / Romantic Drama
- Fantasy
- Fantasy / Dream
- International / Eurasian / Russian
- War
Recent Reviews
Russian Ark
Meh. Basically an excuse a tour of the Hermitage. Some of the costumed scenes, with casts of 1000's, are fun. Not recommended.
Save and Protect
Well worth viewing again. very well acted, and visually powerful. It is interesting that Surrealism is employed to tell the story. Is there in fact a true gap between sensual...
Russian Ark
This film is almost unique in it's respect for its audience. The director assumes at least basic knowledge of the subject, whether it be Russian history, architecture or European art,...
Russian Ark
The Russian Ark, much like Russian history itself, never ceases to amaze. Sokurov's--outside of Mother and Son--crowning achievement. At the time the film was shot it was certainly innovative in...