In Reply to: Have you gentlemen seen Klimovs Agoniya/Rasputin? posted by gware on October 30, 2003 at 18:42:05:
I saw it and I didn't like it one bit. It was too heavy-handed and pretentious, I thought. I watched it looking forward to its end. Petrenko was good, but the whole film revolting. I felt similar emotiong watching "Idi I Smotri". I can't quite put my finger on what it is, but both films made me want to stop watching them - something dehumanizing perhaps. In that regard the impression was aking to that from Sokurov's later works. Both directors make you feel like you have just swallowed a worm.Klimov's earlier works were very weak. The "Adventures of a Dentist" was simply ridiculously weak, and his much heralded "Dobro pozhalovat, ili postoronnim vkhod vospreshchyon" was not much better either.
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- Yes, unfortunately. - Victor Khomenko 20:09:34 10/30/03 (1)
- Thanks for that Victor; I will check out Come and See - gware 20:41:39 10/30/03 (0)