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The Return
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Film Description
Aka Vozvrashcheniye. A beautifully-photographed psychological drama with echoes of Tarkovsky and Sokurov in which two brothers are taken on a fishing trip by their mysterious father who has returned after 12 years away. Part survival expedition, part brutal bonding experience, the boys' fortitude is tested to the extreme.
Film Information
| Director | Andrey Zvyaginstev | ||||
| Starring | Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov
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| Genre | World Cinema
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| Country | Russia | Language | Russian | Year | 2003 |
DVD Extras
Making-of documentary.
Technical Details
| Certificate | 12 | Length | 110 mins | Label | UGC-F | ||
| Cat No | 28538DVD | Format | DVD | Colour | |||
| Region | 2 | Aspect | 1.85:1 Widescreen | ||||
| Subtitles | English. | ||||||
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Review by Tom Pointon on 14th January 2005
Two teenage boys arrive home one day to find the father who'd left them twelve years previously has mysteriously returned. A quiet, enigmatic figure, he takes them away on a fishing trip, during which he appears stern to the point of abusiveness, at the film's climax his apparent lack of affection, pointless authoritarianism, pushes the younger child, Ivan, towards the edge.
This film relies more on mood, atmosphere and characterisation than on story and plot. I love the sense of mystery it evokes and the way the director uses elements from other, previous directors more like building blocks, merging and creating new sets of associations and meanings, instead of empty, post modern referencing. The bleak beauty of the northern isles, where much of the film takes place, recalls the work of Bergman. Several shots bring to mind the work of Tarkovsky. The Return could be read in a number of ways - it's concerns of fathers and sons taps into a long tradiion of Russian art and literature such as Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. It could be seen as religous parable, the father some sort of sacrificial figure. There's the psychoanalytic reading, of the child's wish to overcome the parent. The boys could been seen as signifiers for the Russian nation, abandoned after the fall of communism, the father the embodiment of the old order finding itself replaced, redundant. This is definitely one for art house fans, but it's pace moves quickly enough for it to appeal to a wider audience than, say, much of Tarkovsky' work. The lack of explanations and easy answers will delight some and infuriate others! If you like Russian cinema, particularly Tarkovsky, or the work of Ingmar Bergman, this comes highly recommended.
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