Father and Son
- slow-burn
- inventive
- signature
Neutral, slow-burn, measured drama / poetic, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →In this dreamlike film, a nameless father and his son, Aleksei, live together in an apartment in St. Petersburg. Aleksei's mother has died and consequently the two have a very close relationship. When Aleksei acquires a girlfriend, she refuses to take a back seat to his bond with his dad, and breaks up with him. Aleksei is also experiencing nightmares, dreading separation from his father to be a part of the military as his father was.
Our read · Father and Son (2003) reads as a neutral, slow-burn, inventive drama · poetic entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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