The second film in Russian director Alexander Sokurov's planned "Family Trilogy" shares certain stylistic similarities with MOTHER AND SON (1997), but it's also something of a departure. Both are sheathed the same hazy, beautifully stylized veneer that frequently resembles painting more than film, but where the first film was a darkly hued, dread-filled death watch, the second glows with golden, late-afternoon light and deals with the thriving, codependent love between a widowed father and his teenage son. Aleksei (Aleksei Neimyshev) and his father (Andrei Schetinin) share a small garret apartment in some unnamed seaside city in Russia. Father's wife died years ago b...
Released:
2003
Rated:
NR
Length:
97 mins