Mat i Syn

Title: Mat i Syn
Release Date: 1997
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov

Words will do no justice.  Vibrant oil paintings of life, distant and fleeting, momentary glimpses of aesthetic exhileration.  The brief climatic sequences of death; a humble, caring son torn and distraught in grief over the inevitable death of his mother.  A dreary, melancholic adventure, almost dream-like, unreal in moments and completely humanistic in others.  Essential.

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