Save and Protect
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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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 / Expedition
- Drama / Melodrama
- Drama / Religious
- Drama / Romantic Drama
- Fantasy / Dream
- International / Eurasian / Russian
- War
Recent Reviews
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...
Whispering Pages
One of the most textural films I've ever seen. The surfaces breathe with a life of their own, as suggested by the puffs of fog or smoke that constantly drift...
Whispering Pages
A dream with the pages of Crime and Punishment open on your lap: a surreal black and white vision of the dehumanizing poverty in ancien régime St. Petersburg. Survival breeds...
Alexandra
I loved Alexandra, Sokarov's genius once again leaves the viewers wanting more and more. I find it remarkable, how little Sokurov tells us, while telling us so much. The story's...