Fri., Jul. 2, 2004 12:00 AM PDT
Father's Day will never be the same. In this dreamlike narrative poem from Russian visual master Aleksandr Sokurov, an intensely good-looking father and son duo (Andrei Shchetinin and Aleksei Nejmyshev, both nonprofessional actors) not only share a tiny apartment but the contents of their souls. The pair are so spiritually and physically close--the father soothes his young adult son's nightmares with tight wrestler's clinches--that at times they seem more like lovers than family.
They lift weights, play soccer on the roof, watch male friends come and go, engage women who arrive and then reject (or are rejected by) them. Time passes in a way that confuses linear storytelling, but that's okay. It's a mood piece (not to mention the second film in a trilogy that started with 1997's
Mother and Son) and one created with an intensely personal vision by Sokurov. It's purely touching.
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