The Return
by Andrei Zvyagintsev
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Actor: Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Natalya Vdovina, Vladimir Garin, Yelizaveta AleksandrovaDirector: Andrei Zvyagintsev
Cinematographer: Mikhail Krichman
Editor: Vladimir Mogilevsky
Producer: Andrew Colton
Producer: Dmitri Lesnevsky
Producer: Yelena Kovalyova
Writer: Aleksandr Novototsky
Writer: Vladimir Moiseyenko
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Russian (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Kino International
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Movie Review: Lamentation over the Dead Christ.
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is shot with unsurpassed attention to beauty of the cadre - each scene could be a picture in itself. Cinematography here is simply masterful, in a traditional way reminding of Visconti or Tarkovsky, as many observed, perhaps, but certainly nothing of the new wave.
What makes it so enigmatic that there is certainly symbolism there, of a Messaiah, an unknown father who has come from nowhere and who perishes trying to save his boy.
This symbolism is underscored by the very first scene where the father appears - he is sleeping, but in fact the whole composition, and even his image and facial features, are a direct depiction of Andrea Mantegna's "Lamentation over the Dead Christ" picture in Pinacoteca di Brera, in Milan. It is amazing to think that Russian director obviously knew of this eternal picture. And when we see the father the very first time as dead Christ, does it not foretell ominously his fate?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lamentation_over_the_Dead_Christ_(Mantegna)
The film is deeply enigmatic, as the treasure that the father dug out on the remote island disappears with his departure. What is the significance of this to his children? One decides to herself.
A masterpiece.
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