Father and Son Reviews
February 17, 2007
Full Review
| Original Score: C+
February 17, 2007
Original Score: 1/4
December 5, 2004
Tediously mannered look at the obsessive intimate bonds between a father and his teen-aged military son.
Full Review
| Original Score: C+
September 2, 2004
A beautiful but static viewing experience that utterly fails to touch the viewer.
Original Score: 2/4
August 20, 2004
The film seems to have internalized Sokurov's inspiration so far that it becomes a blur of hints and vapors.
Original Score: 1.5/4
August 13, 2004
Here was my question for most of this movie: Wha-? I was clueless. Did not understand.
July 13, 2004
It's hard to imagine a more jointly artful and mind-numbingly off-putting cinematic experience... Father and Son is the virtual definition of tedium.
Full Review
| Original Score: D-
July 7, 2004
The opacity of the characters and situations prevents the film from having any true emotional impact.
June 29, 2004
One has the feeling the director has let himself go off the deep end regarding the romantic and idealizing tendencies that, for better or worse, characterize much of his work.
June 25, 2004
A magnificently shot exercise in tedium.
Original Score: 2.5/4
June 18, 2004
For those not familiar with Sokurov's work, the opaque, exclusive dialogue, surreal reality and the cryptic relationships may come across as ponderous and pretentious.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/5
June 17, 2004
Has the tedium without the trance.
Original Score: C-
June 15, 2004
Numbness instead of joy is what permeates the masculine, military-ish world of 'Father and Son.'