Tom Keogh
Seattle Times
I confess to being happily startled and disoriented by this film, in the sense that I found myself in the presence of a rare artist who resolutely breaks every rule in the filmmaking book.
Rated: 3/4
Jun 24, 2005
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Wow, this is not like any Soviet-era cinema I've ever seen. It's loose and inventive, fun and bittersweet. It has the sensibility of a Wes Anderson film, right down to the performance piece at the end.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/18/23
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andrey k
Highly unusual movie for Soviet cinema. But I believe the influence of Italian cinema was great on this movie as you can clearly see similarities in telling the story, using of music, long eloquent shots with no actual spoken dialogue. But it is indeed an example of Soviet art-house. The relationships between mother and son are shown in a series of sketches from their life at a crucial point when the son is grown enough to decide what to do with his life as he wants to move to his father.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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