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08/22/08
Alexandra (2008)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:47
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: At once ethereal and tangible, Aleksandr Sokurov's humane Chechen War drama features a spectacular turn by opera star Galina Vishnevskay.
Theatrical Release:Mar 26, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: From the director of Russian Ark, a viscerally powerful new film starring opera legend Galina Vishnevskaya. --© Cinema Guild
Reviews for Alexandra
Aleksandr Sokurov's anti-war drama Alexandra opens with a curious image and spends 90 minutes squeezing it for all it's worth.
03/27/08
Alexandra is a pleasure to watch, but it's also one of those lovely, unclassifiable movies that flourishes better with repeated or prolonged exposures.
06/20/08
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04/23/09
The mixture of the surreal and concrete feels remarkably accurate: a verité depiction of war with a profound ghostly quality.
03/28/08
Perhaps Sokurov's film will leave some viewers as weary as its protagonist, but this intimate and evocative journey through war is well worth taking.
09/19/08
At least one critic has called this Sokurov's most political film, but on its deepest level it considers not a particular war but the complex feelings between mothers and the young men they send out into the world to kill or be killed.
10/24/08
Remarkable, how little Sokurov tells us, while telling us so much.
08/08/08
Top CriticThe film is built on a massive incongruity: Watching this octogenarian drag her little bent-up wheeled luggage cart, amid rolling tanks and military transport trucks, you're looking at two eternal verities%u2014war, and civilians caught up in its wake%u20
08/07/08
Top CriticEccentric and tender, it is a picture out for grace rather than polemics, and it finds enough to make one see emotional intimacy anew
08/27/09
Sokurov's excellent new Alexandra begins with an almost laughable scenario.
05/29/08
... at times humorous, at times touching, and unfortunately, at times tedious and distancing.
06/09/08
But Aleksandr Sokurov, with the mesmerising and subtly disorientating directorial style that he has mastered, makes it feel emotionally real and imaginatively true. A wonderful film.
09/26/08
Interesting look at life in the Russian military, but to what purpose?
07/20/08
It's a well-acted piece that finds a unique way to discuss the fortunes of soldiers and their families during times of war.
05/16/08
Though not a top-notch Sokurov, his new film is a conceptually fascinating meditation on war seen from the perspective of an older woman who visits the battle front.
05/27/07
This is war as stalemate, with Aleksandr Burov’s bleached images creating an alien landscape in which colour is as rare as compassion. Rarely has combat seemed so savage or futile.
09/26/08
I found it incredibly hard to care about either the grandmother or the young men and, since there is no plot to hold your interest, torpor ensues.
12/07/07
An arty, cerebral film, Alexandra nevertheless speaks to the heart like a symphony.
03/26/08
hits on something painful and intrinsically human: the feeling of inevitable disillusionment
03/25/08
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