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Taking a Man, Then Removing His Myth

THE filmmaker Alexander Sokurov is best known to American audiences for "Russian Ark" (2002), a dizzying tour through the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg that sweeps up several centuries of Russian history and culture into a single 96-minute Steadicam shot.
Mr. Sokurov's career, which took off in the post-perestroika late '80s and now spans more than 40 fiction and documentary films, is full of seemingly perverse cinematic feats. His documentaries, many of which are tellingly titled "elegies," include a five-part chronicle of army life on the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border (Episode 1 is a static 40-minute shot of a wintry panorama, set to Mozart and a ruminative voice-over) and a conversation with Boris N. [...]

di Dennis Lim, articolo completo (7042 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 13 novembre 2009