- Actors: Alexei Ananishnov, Gudrun Geyer
- Directors: Aleksandr Sokurov, Alexander Sokurov
- Format: PAL
- Language Russian
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: U
- Studio: Artificial Eye
- DVD Release Date: 25 Jun 2007
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000MR9F8O
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 19,436 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
For any fans of Sokurov this film will give you a lot of what you expect. Ponderous steady cam, breathy speech (and very little of it), a very slim plot and lots of unfinished thoughts, all left flying about like leaves in the wind.
The wind itself has as strong presence in this film, bashing around the protagonist as he carries his dying mother to her final resting place. When not walking the two stop to exchange fragmented memories and kisses, before inevitably getting up and heading off again.
If you like Tarkovsky, you'll more than likely be interested in this, but it's hard going even for the most dedicated world cinema fan.
75 minutes of a man carrying his dying mother across windy countryside is not exactly everyone's idea of a good night in, but if you can look beyond the surface of the film you'll find fertile ground for exploring familial relationships, how they tie into memory and the nature of loss.
The wind itself has as strong presence in this film, bashing around the protagonist as he carries his dying mother to her final resting place. When not walking the two stop to exchange fragmented memories and kisses, before inevitably getting up and heading off again.
If you like Tarkovsky, you'll more than likely be interested in this, but it's hard going even for the most dedicated world cinema fan.
75 minutes of a man carrying his dying mother across windy countryside is not exactly everyone's idea of a good night in, but if you can look beyond the surface of the film you'll find fertile ground for exploring familial relationships, how they tie into memory and the nature of loss.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Nested between the sometimes brilliant, sometimes banal curriculum vitae of the prodical heir to Andrei Tarkovsky, Mother and Son can truly be go down amongst the pantheon of modern day masterpieces. Alongside SatanTango (unreleased in the UK) by Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr, this is one of the great films of the 90s, and Sokurov can be said to be the latest remaining hope for poetic, spiritual cinema.
Rumours abound of the director suffering from a creeping blindness; representatively this film is mired in a mirky painterly aesthetic that perfectly reflects the oppresive relationship betwen mother and son in the last, painfully slow, dying hours of the mother's life. Distant trains pass, fields of corn blow in the wind, and long tracks through fields lead nowhere. You realise at some point that Sokurov has taken both the technique and purpose of Tarkovsky's Mirror to the definitive moment. Let us not forget that film also revolved around the intimate and fraught mother and son relationship embellished with fields of corn swaying in unexplained winds. But unlike Mirror Sokurov has stripped the scenario down to the bones. And those bones are the last physical presense of a loved soul on this earth.
You will be moved, you may cry, you may even find it unbearable to watch, but if this is due to boredom better come back to this film when the issue of mortality becomes truly pressing, although what comfort is offered here I cannot say.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a wonderfully beautiful film. The way the camera lingers on scenes of great natural beauty shows the heart of a poet and the eye of an artist. It is rare to see a film so lovely and tender, showing the deepest love between two people. I recently spent 4 years looking after my mother 24 hours a day,before she finally died in feb this year; and so the film resonated with me. I wish I had had the main characters tenderness at times - I wasn't always quite so loving, but then this is just a film, even if an inspiring and moving one. The photography by Alexei Fyodorova and the direction by Alexander Sokurov are perfect. The other feature on this DVD "A Humble Life" is also wonderful. I can see how certain of the other reviewers may think of it as boring, but to me it is a work of art and could never be boring in any way. I will surely be looking into some of the directors other work. It certainly has had a profound affect on me.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Utter dross
This film gives new scope to the meaning of the word abysmal. I probably watch 4 movies a week, 52 weeks each year, and have done for the last 30 odd years. Read more
Published on 17 April 2010 by Bill Mason
touching
This is a very touching film showing a son who really loves his mother. However, it is also a very slow film, not for thrill lovers.
Published on 8 April 2010 by K. Kenny
A beautiful film
A very moving film with two good actors disclosing an intimate relationship of mother and son. Slow, lyric, extraordinary cinematography, shows that this director is a master in... Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2009 by Skúli
A little goes a LOOOOOOOOONG way
The previous reviewer has pretty much got the feel of the movie, but he puts a far more charitable spin on it than I could. Read more
Published on 16 May 2009 by Peter Scott-presland
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