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11/17/09
Come and See (1985)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:16
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.9/10
Theatrical Release:Feb 2, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: Elem Klimov's stunning COME AND SEE is a relentlessly brutal condemnation of war hidden in the guise of a surrealistic coming-of-age nightmare. A physically and emotionally draining viewing... [More]
Starring: Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius
Director: Elem Klimov
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Reviews for Come and See
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One of the greatest films ever made, Elem Klimov's anti-war masterpiece is ironically named, as those with weak stomachs may want to steer clear.
05/24/09
Stalingrad-born Elem Klimov's "Come and See" is a undiluted expression of cinematic poetry in the service of an unspeakably turbulent anti-war narrative about the 628 Byelorussian Villages burnt to the ground along with their inhabitants by the Nazis duri
05/05/09
A highly charged, emotionally exhausting indictment of war and the inhumanity of the Nazis, set in Byelorussia during the 1943 Nazi invasion.
10/15/07
I suppose that never forgetting has its place, but not when it insists on such narrowly righteous fantasies of revenge.
10/15/07
Top CriticCome and See, the last and most notable film made by the former Soviet director Elem Klimov, is another fusion of popular and vanguard styles, albeit put to more civic-minded use.
10/15/07
Top CriticIn Klimov's unshakable vision, death is casual, safety is impossible and beauty is backwards: this is peerlessly gorgeous filmmaking about absolute ugliness.
10/15/07
Occupying territory somewhere between Ivan's Childhood and Fateless, Come And See is an intimate epic in which all the promise of adolescence is perverted by war.
07/03/07
A relentless masterpiece, and a brilliant study of the cause and effect nature of brutality.
05/06/06
A disorienting and undifferentiated amalgam of almost lyrical poeticism and expressionist nightmare.
02/09/06
This Soviet-era Russian film displays the horrors of World War II in a manner that makes The Deer Hunter look like The Green Berets.
12/06/05
No review available.
06/14/05
Scene for scene, Mr. Klimov proves a master of a sort of unreal realism that seeks to get at events terrible beyond comprehension.
08/30/04
Top CriticThis is a real horror film -- it's painful to watch and there's no escape through thinking it's only a movie -- and it's correspondingly impressive.
03/24/04
Almost too chilling....it haunts beyond the point of entertainment.
11/05/02
Come and See succeeds through its use of nightmarish un-reality -- how we might see these events not through a documentary objectivity, but through an uncomprehending gaze of horror.
07/02/01
Come and See sounds like an invitation to a child's game. Nothing could be further from the truth.
01/01/00
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