The second installment in an Alexander Sokurov trilogy begun with Mother and Son (still to come: Two Brothers and a Sister), no less abstract than its predecessor, but more abstruse in the bargain, less emotionally direct. It makes minimal use of the distorting lenses of Mother and Son, and maximal use of the murmuring dialogue of the director's Russian Ark. The more or less monochromatic images range on the color spectrum from Cream of Wheat to Quaker Oats. Altogether a severe bore, mitigated by a running time of only an hour and twenty minutes. Andrei Shchetinin, Aleksei Nejmyshev. (2003) — Duncan Shepherd
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