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Father and Son
Drama - 2003
Father and Son
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6.7
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A small family "a father and a son" lives on the top floor of an old house. The father retired from the military, when he was a student in flight school, he experienced the first and the only love of his life. This girl became his wife and she gave birth to his son. Both of them were twenty years old then. The wife died when she was young. This love remained his secret unique happiness. The son grew up, and he will probably be a military man like his father. The son's features constantly remind the father of his wife. He doesn't separate his son from his still persisting love: this is his unity with his beloved woman. The father cannot imagine his life without his son. The son loves his father devotedly and deeply, a filial feeling intensified by an instinctive moral responsibility that is being tested by life. Their love is almost of mythological virtue and scale. It cannot happen in real life. This is a fairy–tale collision.
Director:
,
Aleksandr Sokurov
Cast:
,
Andrei Shchetinin
,
Aleksei Neymyshev
,
Aleksandr Razbash

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Details

Rated:
UNRATED
Runtime:
94 min
Release date:
12 Sep 2003
Country:
DE, IT, NL, RU
Languages:
Russian
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$38,150
Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Poised and teasing in a way that might incite less patient viewers to madness. But you don't come to Sokurov for his narrative agility, you come for his rhapsodic longueurs.
– Wesley Morris,
Boston Globe,
9 Jul 2004
fresh:
The best way to watch Father and Son is to let it wash over you and not be overly concerned with prosaic matters like plot.
– Ruthe Stein,
San Francisco Chronicle,
30 Jul 2004
fresh:
The film may be maddeningly obtuse, but its images are dazzling.
– Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post,
13 Aug 2004
rotten:
Here was my question for most of this movie: Wha-? I was clueless. Did not understand.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
13 Aug 2004
fresh:
Although Father and Son is never as deep or wrenching as Mother and Son, the careful casting and Sokurov's unique visual style continue to make this a series worth following.
– John Hartl,
Seattle Times,
20 Aug 2004
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