Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Unforgettable image of Alyosha crying in terror behind the door. 😱
Zvyagintsev nods to Tarkovsky’s beautiful ruins, whose disrepair has here deteriorated past apocalypse: rain dripping backlit into puddles among the ruins of an abandoned hotel (Nostalghia), grey pan shots of a wintry beech forest (Ivan’s Childhood). If you found that vision of Russia depressing, brace yourselves.
Like the shivering broken landscape, all relationships are bled of tenderness. Grays dominate the palette. The only warmth is brought by volunteers in…
The children rebel against their bourgeois parents. The father writes them another cheque.
Beautifully shot scene where time stops. Well edited mushroom trip sequence.
Besides these highlights I was bored stiff by the pace of this domestic drama.