Russian Symphony
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- inventive
Sombre, measured, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →The protagonist finds out that some children were left behind in a sinking school, and is slowly driven mad as he tries to save them. A parable on the theme of the Last Judgment, numerous catastrophic events reveal a certain ambiguity in their origins, accompanied by the terrible suspicion that the things going on are some kind of a performance or theatrical production.
Our read · Russian Symphony (2006) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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