The Return
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Movie Reviews of The Return
Movie Review: The fatal and devastating gaze!
Summary: 5 Stars
The abandon of the familiar nucleus by the father has been told so many times in too many places. In Latin America is a very common place, the wide gamut of feelings this fact may arouse are so many and so randomly that hardly can be expressed or resumed but through little testimonials.
This chamber work deals with this painful issue. A father decades to return to his family, after twelve years, his wife does not doubt to forgive him, almost instantaneously, but Ivan possesses a very difficult character, he won' t forgive him with such easiness. The father doesn't transmit his feelings, sunk in his own world and trying to get some affection, he invites his sons to fish.
This journey will be the big frame in which the complex dramatis personae will unfold. A crude and incisive glimpse around one of the most sorrowful and common portraits in any latitude of this world.
The visual language is superb. This young director conquered the admiration of great audiences around the world. The film awarded several important Prizes.
It is magnificent in all orders. A little gem of this promising and gifted filmmaker.. Do not miss his name.
Movie Review: A film only Russia could make
Summary: 5 Stars
I've seen many emotional films in my life, but I've never seen a film with as much emotional intensity as Vozvrashcheniye. Even though I don't know what it is like to have a distance or missing parent, I feel I've suffered the same feelings that other children in this situation must have.
The emotional content of the film continues if you watch the documentary on the making of the film included in the DVDs extras. This is no ordinary film; the feelings of the director, the cinematographer, the producer, and the personal experiences of each of the actors; words cannot describe the heart every single person put into this film. The insufficiency of words can also be described by the film itself -there isn't a heavy amount of dialogue, and there doesn't need to be (even though for the majority of the film you're screaming at the characters to say something!). To quote from Fyodor Dostoyevsky (a Russian author): "there is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words."
This little review doesn't do justice to the film for the same reason. It is for this reason, this insufficiency that words have, why films (like this one) need to be created.
Movie Review: The box held the secret
Summary: 5 Stars
Everyone has already told you what the story is about, so i won't ramble about that. My curiousity was piqued when the father digs up this old ammo box. Other people have come up with ideas that he was a hit man, a burglar, a Russian gangster.
I imagined the man had been a prisoner of war (remember the wife said, "he was a pilot") and the box contained secrets, perhaps mementos and pictures of his family which he cherished and missed which could finally explain his absence and prove to his sons that he did really love them. Yes, he was tough, but other cultures deal with fatherhood and manhood differently than they do in the USA. The father took no nonsense, he was a discipinarian, he wanted to make men out of these boys. Call it tough love, it is necessary to survive in the real world, unlike the unrealistic and impractical American t.v. series, "the Nelsons' or "Father knows best". My father was a lot tougher, this guy tried to bond with his sons.I don't think he was such a mysterious man, he was very human, he lost his life trying to save his sons life.
The end is open to interpretation, so i gave you my take on it.
Movie Review: X-tremely good film
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this film a few weeks ago at the San Juan Cinema Festival. I saw around 18 films and this one is one best films that week. While watching it I was mesmerized by the cinematography and the landscapes shown throughout the film. It was filmed in beautiful locations, inside and outside the city. I notices a few relegious references (the father is almost a christ-like figure), but at the time didnt think too much about them. Now I know there are even more in the film. Im not saying this is a religious film. I went to see it with a few friends and talked with others who saw it after watching it, and nobody noticed those references, which surprised me quite a bit. However its more than that, in the end the director doesnt give you all the answers, and it will be up to you to figure out what happened, if it actually did happen at all. You can see it as a religious film, as a film about the new and old Russia, or as a film about two brothers who never had a father and one day he comes back to show them important thing that will help them survive through life. Great directing, great story, great acting and great photography.Movie Review: Food for Your Heart and Soul
Summary: 5 Stars
The moment this film opened I was overjoyed to be in the hands of a brilliant new film maker and
for any fan of serious film, this is a real thrill. I can't come up with any more adjectives that haven't been exhausted by the hundreds of reviewers that have been raving about this film.
I can share one story that will illustrate its powerful effect.
At a screening for around 100 teenagers, I noted a real absence of any restlessness. When I turned around to observe the audience, they sat forward, riveted in unison to the screen. At the height of the drama, as one son climbs to the top of a tower, the DVD stuck. It froze. The agonized scream of disappointment that came from this collective audience was the loudest I have ever heard, and will always stay with me. It was the greatest compliment young people could ever give a great film. They were with it heart and soul, and I'm sure you probably will be too.
It gives us hope in the future of film.