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Second Circle, The
(Krug vtoroy)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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In the 1990 film The Second Circle, Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov solidified his reputation as "a master of controlling mood" . Expertly pitched between absurdity and elegy, alIegory and sociaI critique, The Second Circle is an "uncompromising, imagistic, masterly work," .
ln a remote Siberian viIIage, an anonymous young man emerges from a bIizzard to cIaim his Iate father's body. Navigating the detritus of an old man's finaI friendIess decade and the dehumanizing maze of red tape that are his father's soIe legacy, the boy inadvertently picks through the debris of unraveIed family ties and confronts the yawning gap between aIienated Soviet generations. Scorned and ignored, his Iabor of mourning becomes as transformative as the Iabor of birth. "l'Il burn everything, but not my father," the young man warns a funeraI director. As he finds himseIf in his father's lifeless eyes, the reluctant young piIgrim discovers that they have more in common in death than they did in life.
"A starkly beautifuI, awesomely impressive and ferociously demanding exercise in pure visuaI cinema," , The Second Circle's austere coIor paIette offers a visuaI feast of timeIess iconography and nightmarishly precise detail. "Like his mentor Andrei Tarkovsky," said in The New York Times, "Mr. Sokurov has an unshakable vision of what film art should be." Whether bleached by the winter sun, bathed in moonlight or caressed by shadows, the faces and frames of The Second Circle haunt a unique cinematic borderIine where audacious expressionism meets documentary reality.
This Kino on Video edition has been newIy restored, and the director himself has made additional cuts for pacing - totaIing about 5 minutes - to make this the definitive, never-before-seen version of The Second Circle. |
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