Mother And Son
An hour and ten minutes of a young mother loved facilitating their death as a rest as he can handle. They are in bed together (note that Sokurov subtly introduces the movement in the film), he comforts her, he takes a walk in the woods.
Then they return. Sale only. She dies.
Cry. Does not seem much of a basis for a movie, and yet mankind is here, with occasional cuts to shots of high mountains
and forests remind us that life and death is everywhere (and perhaps encourages us to look for symbolic readings of the film, too). Painfully beautiful, trance-like film.
Note also another film Sokurov’Una humble life “is included in the extras (although in reality more than five minutes” Mother and Child ‘). And one drawback: the film was not well transferred to disk from a German impression, with some random badly translated subtitles.
Sokurov and his film deserves better treatment, especially a company with a reputation for Artificial Eye.






