Father and Son
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Movie Reviews of Father and Son
Movie Review: For the film, 5 stars, hoping the DVD does it justice
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this film at the theater about a month ago and I am very happy to see it being released so soon, though I suspected as much since there were only about 10 people to see this film on its opening Saturday. This is a wonderful, beautiful film. It is highly stylized, even pretentious, but still wonderful. I have been following Sokurov for some time. I find his earliest films to be almost unbearable. Perhaps it was a need on his part to follow his mentor, Tarkovsky. Finally, with Mother and Son and Russian Ark he has developed a style of his own, much more willing to distort the film image than Tarkovsky was. His films are slow and meditative, like Tarkovsky or Bresson, without much speaking. I don't won't to talk of the plot of this film, esp as it has very little, much like Mother and Son. Instead, it is the visual experience that is remarkable, beautiful and the interesting way he has of showing the interiors of his characters' feelings without much use of words. Mother and Son was about loss and alienation, so is Father and Son, but because of different reasons. You have to see the films to find out. However, from what I know of Sukurov, loss and alienation seem to be his favorite themes, and the reasons I like him so much. I realize these films are not going to be to everyone's liking, perhaps esp Father and Son because of its extreme slow pace and sometimes pretentious confusing story line. The film has a very homoerotic feel, but one tempered by a growing distance between the father and his son. And like his previous films that I have seen, the ending leaves a strong impression. Sokurov has become a master at high impact finales. Overall, a great, thoughtful, unique film. Buy it or rent it and see why.Movie Review: A master filmmaker at work
Summary: 5 Stars
While Father and Son teetered at times in crashing down in a homoerotic heap, the underlying poetic vision and cinematic quality was sublime, and I found myself connecting in ways that were not so literal as dreamlike and emotional. Taken literally, this film might be seen as a tale of erotic yearning between father and son, but I experienced it on a different level, as a story about love, and the ways in which love can be supportive as much as difficult and confining over time (the ways in which personal growth and development can be infused as well as hindered by love between a parent and child), and about how difficult it is to break free while at the same time giving full tribute to that bond that has been so sustaining in the past.
In Father and Son, Soukorov expresses this emotional dynamic in physical terms (hence the appearance of erotic suggestion), but the film's palette is poetic and impressionistic which suggests a non-literal interpretation. "A father's love crucifies his son," and it is the son's 'right of passage' to embrace that crucification.
While not as entirely successful as Mother And Son, Father and Son is well worth seeking out and considering with open, attentive engagement, if only because it has been made by one of the supreme masters of contemporary film.
Movie Review: Amazingly Beautiful Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Once seen, I could not get this film out of my mind. So moving, I took a day off of work in order to see it again before its much-too-short run ended. A New York Times reviewer described it best: "[I]t has an intensity that surpasses understanding." The cinematography is gorgeous, the story is deeply moving, the characters are much more human than most Americans care to admit. Immediately shooting to the top of my list, I had to e-mail and thank Aleksandr Sokurov personally for his wonderful film... and happily received a reply. Watch it with an open mind.Movie Review: Heart Piercing
Summary: 5 Stars
A thought provoking movie that truly touches the heart in ways unfamiliar to most people. Filled with a deep love between father and son but also the nagging devastation over the loss of a wife and mother. Makes everyone realize that in spite of our profoundly beautiful relationships that in the blink of an eye we can be alone.Movie Review: Like a beautiful painting...
Summary: 5 Stars
What a wonderful film with such sweetness and love between a father and son. The relationship changed with time, but the heart of it all remained. The light seemed to soften the roughness of the days. This movie is more than just a movie...it is a painting that captured the true beauty of what matters the most...LOVE.