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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:11
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.3/10
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
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.
Top CriticRemarkable, how little Sokurov tells us, while telling us so much.
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
Top CriticAlexandra is a pleasure to watch, but it's also one of those lovely, unclassifiable movies that flourishes better with repeated or prolonged exposures.
Top CriticIn the hands of visionary filmmaker Alexander Sokurov, this simple material makes for a haunting drama about war, generational relationships and the human condition.
Top CriticWithout mounting a soap box, the film makes eloquent points about the struggle.
Top CriticAlexandra is a much more modest undertaking, but is just as compelling. And Galina Vishnevskaya, an 81-year-old opera singer, is wonderful as Alexandra.
Top CriticAlexander Sokurov’s Alexandra feels like a communiqué from another time, another place, anywhere but here.
Top CriticSpare yet tactile, a mysterious mixture of lightness and gravity.
Top CriticStark but moving snapshot of men on the front line of a nation's nightmare.
Top CriticLess accessible to general auds than The Sun, pic deserves major accolades from fests as well as discerning arthouses.
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