Aleksei Ananishnov, Gudrin Geyer
In a remote house in the Russian countryside, Mother is on her deathbed and her adult son is taking care of her. When she asks to go for a walk, he carries her to a bench where she takes a nap, then h...( read more
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DVD Release Date: December 12, 2000
Stats: 73 reviews
It's definitely hard to watch but, once it finishes and you look back at those last 73 minutes of your life, you realize it is a powerful piece of film as art: everything is a plastic/aesthetic statement more than just a movie, from the color palette to the sound editing (which w...( read more)
For what it is, Mother and Son is a fantastic film. Simple and effective, it really does go straight for the emotions. The script is a thoughtful and intelligent piece of writing. This is mainly film as art, enjoy it for the scenery and the poetic visual style. The film also keep...( read more)
An unbelievably beautiful and poetic film that moves at a perfect meditative pace. Every impressionistic shot seems like it's from a museum painting or from a dream. The visual style was inspired by the pa...( read more)
fanno il rumore del fuoco quando scoppietta piano, non appena aprono bocca. e lei è così piccola, e quelle betulle come lei, e la luce, e lui è così bello - bello bello bello
This film is about the relationship between a sick mother and her son. (surprise.) Surely, this isn't for the average viewer: narrative is slow, events nonexistent; the film consists mostly of painting-like "still-lives" with very little dialogue. The mother and son walk along th...( read more)
« Provo una pena infinita per te, perché anche se non vuoi, devi sopportare il mio dolore e questo non è giusto »
LETTERBOX. Hermosa, pero afectadamente. Quizá requiera una segunda mirada, aunque no anticipo que suceda pronto. / Beautiful, but affectedly so. Might require a second look, though I don't anticipate it any time soon.
I had much expected a melodramatic film but watching this, I actually found this to be unbelievably beautiful. The painting-like imagery gives us a lot of subjective thoughts to work out on and Sokurov deliberate handling of images to give an implied sensory experience more attun...( read more)
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