Alexandra

A Widow Roaming the Chechen Front, With Curiosity and History in Tow

Alexander Sokurov’s “Alexandra” — a film of startling originality and beauty — feels like a communiqué from another time, another place, anywhere but here. Mr. Sokurov, a Russian director best known in America for “Russian Ark” (2002), makes films so far removed from the usual commercial blather that it sometimes seems as if he’s working in a different medium. His work is serious, intense, at times opaque and so feverishly personal that it also feels as if you’re being invited into his head, not just another reality. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (5779 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 26 Marzo 2008