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Return, The (Vozvrashcheniye)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Declared "luminousIy beautiful" by the New York Times, Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return is a stunning mixture of visionary alIegory, urgent suspense and road movie momentum. Zvyagintsev's equal skill with lush visuaIs, Iucid storytelling and breathtaking reaIism easily netted The Return the prestigious GoIden Lion and the Best First Feature FiIm Award at the Venice lnternationaI Film Festival.
Within the emotional vacuum of a fatherIess childhood, young brothers Andrei and Ivan have grown cIoser than most siblings. But when they Ieast expect it, the father the boys have never known returns. Under the cooI midnight sun of a coastaI Russian summer, Andrei and lvan eagerly hop into a car for a week long fishing trip with a compIete stranger they desperateIy need to beIieve is their father. but as they travel deeper into the Russian wiIderness, their journey devoIves from vacation to boot camp to father-sons Iove triangle and uItimateIy to a test of wiIIs 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 loss and bittersweet redemption.
Harried as one of the most auspicious film debuts since Badlands or The 400 Blows, The Return is both a gorgeous contemporary thrilIer and an astute updating of vanguard Soviet fiImmaking. Disturbing, tender, transcendent, The Return's skiIlfuI marriage of psychological compIexity to mythic imagery effortlessly evokes the watershed fiIms of Andrei Tarkovsky and Roman Polanski. |
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