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Alexandra
Directed by
Aleksandr Sokurov
Not Rated
2007
1h 35m
Drama
,
War
6.8
88%
69%
6.0
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Elderly Aleksandra visits her Russian soldier grandson, Denis, at the Chechen war front, providing comfort as she tours his army. All the while, Denis ponders the reason for her unexpected appearance.
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Cast of Alexandra
Galina Vishnevskaya
Aleksandra Nikolaevna
Vasily Shevtsov
Denis
Raisa Gichaeva
Malika
Evgeniy Tkachuk
Andrey Kotunov
Andrei Bogdanov
Rustam Shakhgireyev
Aleksandr Alyoshkin
Aleksandr Kladko
Aleksei Neymyshev
Aleksandr Udaltsov
Valentin Kuznetsov
Aleksandr Peredkov
Tamara Isaeva
Aleksandr Sokurov
Director / Writer
Andrey Sigle
Producer / Music
Laurent Danielou
Producer
Dmitry Malich
Production Design
Aleksandr Burov
Director Of Photography
Aleksandr Mazur
Additional Director Of Photography
Lidiya Kryukova
Costume Design
Alexandra Ratings & Reviews
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
An unusual masterpiece atmospheric anti-war film that is an example of cinema as pure feeling.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
Eccentric and tender, it is a picture out for grace rather than polemics, and it finds enough to make one see emotional intimacy anew
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
At least one critic has called this Sokurov's most political film, but on its deepest level it considers not a particular war but the complex feelings between mothers and the young men they send out into the world to kill or be killed.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
Here is what filmmaking looks like at its absolute best: a movie of bold and aggressive originality that expresses itself with the utmost delicacy.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Remarkable, how little Sokurov tells us, while telling us so much.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The film is built on a massive incongruity: Watching this octogenarian drag her little bent-up wheeled luggage cart, amid rolling tanks and military transport trucks, you're looking at two eternal verities%u2014war, and civilians caught up in its wake%u20
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
One of those pure films that's devoid of excess and overstatement...simple but searing.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
The sepia tones and the claustrophobic camerawork are instantly recognizable as Sokurov's work, and so is the emphasis on family intimacy.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Alexandra is a pleasure to watch, but it's also one of those lovely, unclassifiable movies that flourishes better with repeated or prolonged exposures.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
In the hands of visionary filmmaker Alexander Sokurov, this simple material makes for a haunting drama about war, generational relationships and the human condition.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Aleksandr Sokurov's anti-war drama Alexandra opens with a curious image and spends 90 minutes squeezing it for all it's worth.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Alexandra is a much more modest undertaking, but is just as compelling. And Galina Vishnevskaya, an 81-year-old opera singer, is wonderful as Alexandra.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Alexander Sokurov's Alexandra feels like a communiqué from another time, another place, anywhere but here.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Spare yet tactile, a mysterious mixture of lightness and gravity.
Slant Magazine
Kevin B. Lee
Disappointingly uncharacteristic of Sokurov, the humanist moments that pass between them lean toward token sentiment, and the moments that pass between Alexandra and the grandson she traveled so far to see feel inconsequential.
The Hollywood Reporter
Ray Bennett
Stark but moving snapshot of men on the front line of a nation's nightmare.
Variety
Jay Weissberg
Less accessible to general auds than The Sun, pic deserves major accolades from fests as well as discerning arthouses.
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