Aleksandra

Alexander Sokurov’s Alexandra – a film of startling originality and beauty – feels like a communiqué from another time, another place, anywhere but here.
– MANOHLA DARGIS, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Featuring a performance of monumental depth by opera legend Galina Vishnevskaya, pic presents war for what it is: brutal, crushing, and ugly, and yet Sokurov doesn’t lens any battles. These wounds are deeper, coming from the endlessness of a war (Chechnya, but also anywhere) that bleaches the soul as surely as Sokurov’s striking trademark monochrome palette.
– JAY WEISSBERG, VARIETY

I don’t like war feature fi lms. It was enough for me just once to be there and see it myself, in order for all these spectacular
attacks, picturesque explosions, bodies falling in slo-mo, all to become linked with concepts of ”vulgar” and ”fake”. There is no poetry in war, no beauty, and it should never be filmed poetically: it is a horror that cannot be expressed, human degradation that cannot be expressed.
– DIRECTOR ALEXANDR SOKUROV