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A weak, elderly, bedridden woman in a country home is taken outside by her son for a few hours of fresh air.
That's it.
The tenderness between mother and son and, especially, the lyrical camerawork which shows nature as beautifully as ever it has been framed, makes this a masterpiece.
This is an astonishingly beautiful film and a bookend of sorts to the same director's film about a son coping with his father's recent death.
Warning: do not bother with Sokurov's, "Father and Son." It is a bizarre, soft focus paean to homosexuality and incest.
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I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So is an attraction to watching paint dry. Or grass grow. I own this little gem, and should have saved my money by camping out in the front yard.
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the more Russian films I see, the more I feel compelled to visit there; a Russian friend I made recently from Pavarosk (sp?), inland from the port of Vladivostok, says her parents can still speak a little German; phrases like "Halten sie mir" ( Stay where you are ) and "Hande hoch!"
which quite surprises me, as she was born 40 years after WW2 ended
I've tried learning some Russian, but it seems much more difficult than Spanish or French
A Swiss friend, some years ago, drove his Toyota Landcruiser from Tokyo to Hokkaido, caught the ferry to Vladivostok and drove home from there to Berne, with Tokyo number plates. He was accompanied by his German father, who was one of the very few survivors of the 6th Armys defeat at Stalingrad
He posted the 'Cruisers numberplates back to me from Berne, so I could de-register the LandCruiser for him, and these were pretty bent and battered; it must have been *quite* a trip....Grins
he had connections.
Never quit speaking about the people, the strange beverage (vodka), the mountains of caviar, and the fairness of the women (he was Brasilian). His driver was Japanese and many Russians assumed he was a Mongol and spoke Russian to him.
..."Enemy at the Gates".
Think I'll pop it in the player...
Georg Chukhrai's film about a Russian sniper.
Jude Law as a killer? I don't think so...
...Though I thought Ed Harris did some of his best work as Major Konig in "...Gates".Saved the film for me.
mediocre talent. Like "loyal" Hollywood journeymen of old, he lasted long enough to develop a familiarity with viewers but the ability, TO ME, is still pretty low.
He just seems so hard to be trying, plus he looks like the old football jock he is.
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