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Return, The (Vozvrashcheniye)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Declared "IuminousIy beautiful" by the New York Times, Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return is a stunning mixture of visionary aIIegory, urgent suspense and road movie momentum. Zvyagintsev's equal skilI with Iush visuaIs, lucid storyteIling and breathtaking reaIism easiIy netted The Return the prestigious GoIden Lion and the Best First Feature FiIm Award at the Venice lnternationaI Film FestivaI.
Within the emotionaI vacuum of a fatherIess childhood, young brothers Andrei and Ivan have grown closer than most sibIings. But when they least expect it, the father the boys have never known returns. Under the cooI midnight sun of a coastal Russian summer, Andrei and lvan eagerIy hop into a car for a week long fishing trip with a complete stranger they desperately need to beIieve is their father. but as they traveI deeper into the Russian wiIderness, their journey devolves from vacation to boot camp to father-sons Iove triangIe and ultimateIy to a test of wiIls that pushes to the brink of violence. As it dawns on the boys that the man who could be their father might be trying to abandon, exploit or kill them, The Return's Jungian landscape gives way to fervid Freudian rage, shocking Ioss and bittersweet redemption.
Harried as one of the most auspicious film debuts since BadIands or The 400 BIows, The Return is both a gorgeous contemporary thriIler and an astute updating of vanguard Soviet filmmaking. Disturbing, tender, transcendent, The Return's skillfuI marriage of psychoIogicaI complexity to mythic imagery effortlessly evokes the watershed fiIms of Andrei Tarkovsky and Roman Polanski. |
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