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Film Screening: Alexandra @ National Gallery of Art
by Svetlana
| March 15, 2008 | ||
| 4:30 pm |
East Building Concourse, Large Auditorium
“Sokurov’s new film is a characteristically beautifiul and elemental tale of a grandmother (Galina Vishnevskaya) traveling to Grozny to visit her twenty-seven-year-old grandson, a Russian army captain posted in Chechnya whom she has not seen in seven years. As one might expect from a director with metaphysical tendencies, Sokurov’s subject is not only Chechnya but every war…and Alexandra is Sokurov’s love letter to Vishnevskaya—the iconic, commanding character she portrays is a tribute to her legacy. The film is one of his most affecting to date”—Dimitri Eipides. (Alexander Sokurov, 2007, 35mm, Russian with subtitles, 92 minutes)
http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/alexander_sokurov.shtm
