It is a poetic vision, filled with the symbolism peculiar to Tarkovsky's imagination. It is also a visually stunning, hauntingly beautiful, brilliant piece of art.
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07/30/03
The Sacrifice (1986)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:20
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.2/10
Runtime: 4 hrs 6 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Set in Sweden, Andrei Tarkovsky's last film follows the travails of wealthy patriarch Alexander (Erland Josephson), a former actor and critic who lives in a remote home on the edge of the Baltic... [More]
Starring: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Valerie Mairesse
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky, Sven Nykvist
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Reviews for The Sacrifice
For all its Swedish trimmings, the long, syrup-slow takes are unmistakably Tarkovsky’s, and it’s these that provide this arthouse disaster movie with its mesmerising power.
12/07/07
A fitting epitaph for a great artist. Every frame could be hung on a wall, the script is supremely thoughtful and the performances are universally excellent.
12/07/07
Invaluable pointers on narrative patience, spiritual yearning and technical finesse.
12/07/07
No review available.
12/04/07
It's long, stately and po-faced (all reasons why Tarkovsky seems faintly unfashionable these days), but if it's extended, beautifully composed tracking shots you want, he's your man.
12/07/07
heavy-going but brilliantly realized masterpiece.
07/29/06
Tarkovsky pulls you into a dark, foreboding nightmare and Nykvist [Bergman's former cameraman] gives that nightmare an explosive awakening.
01/01/00
Top CriticTarkovsky's last film, a spiritual meditation about the end of the world and a new beginning, bears resemblance to Ingmar Bergman's work, not least beacuse of its themes and lead actor and cinematographer.
12/31/08
True film devotees will appreciate the mystery and the spiritual allusiveness of The Sacrifice.
08/26/04
The Sacrifice, famed Russian director Andrei (Solaris) Tarkovsky's last film, is a pondering, intense, obscure film filled with images that will haunt the collective memories of everybody who has seen it.
01/01/00
Tarkovsky punctuates this so-called "plot" with many, many stunningly poetic images, mostly filmed in long takes with delicate tracking shots.
01/29/09
A difficult film - slow-paced, unashamedly theatrical and heavily laden with philosophy – yet a profoundly satifying one: a rewarding display of filmmaking mastery that forms a mystical and enigmatic coda to a legendary career.
12/07/07
Certainly makes demands on one's patience, but Tarkovsky is always worth the work.
08/15/03
As involving and intellectually rich as all Tarkovsky's work.
12/30/06
Brilliant and audacious, with one of the most extraordinary final sequences in modern cinema.
12/07/07
The Sacrifice is not the sort of movie most people will choose to see, but those with the imagination to risk it may find it rewarding.
01/01/00
Top CriticTo awaken the spiritual hunger for something beyond materialistic, desacrilized modern existence was the burden of Tarkovsky, cinematic poet laureate of the Russian soul.
10/27/04
No review available.
04/13/05
The Sacrifice is a stunningly beautiful film that holds your attention even while you feel slightly stunned, in a less welcome way, by what is actually going on.
08/30/04
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