Mother And Son

1997, Movie, NR, 73 mins

Mother And Son
Pure cinema, and then some. Russian director Alexander Sokurov's latest film pares the medium down to its most basic elements to construct a powerful work of sad, transcendent beauty. The narrative itself is extremely simple: In a lonely country house, a dutiful son cares for his terminally ill mother during the final hours of her life. Scenes unfold in a series of long, nearly silent takes. The mother first wakes. The son carries her outside and reads her postcards from her past. They go for a walk, the son carrying his mother in his arms. They stop and rest. Returning to the house, the son leaves his mother and goes for a walk. When he returns, she is dead. There...
Released: 1997 Rated: NR Length: 73 mins
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