Evoking realism, hyperrealism, and the surreal, Elem Klimov’s nightmarish, technically marvelous 1985 movie “Come and See,” is a mesmerizing and legendary, if little-seen, WWII masterpiece that finally received its due earlier this summer thanks to the Criterion Collection.
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Based upon the novel “I Am from the Fiery Village” by Ales Adamovich —Klimov’s haunting, horrors-of-war epic shatters the senses throughout and suggests an unholy alliance between the works of Stanley Kubrick’s bravura filmmaking and Terrence Malick’s artful poeticism, but in reality, preceded both “Full Metal Jacket” (1987) and “The Thin Red Line” (1998)— and Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” (1998) for that matter.
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Read More: The 25 Best War Movies Of All Time
Based upon the novel “I Am from the Fiery Village” by Ales Adamovich —Klimov’s haunting, horrors-of-war epic shatters the senses throughout and suggests an unholy alliance between the works of Stanley Kubrick’s bravura filmmaking and Terrence Malick’s artful poeticism, but in reality, preceded both “Full Metal Jacket” (1987) and “The Thin Red Line” (1998)— and Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” (1998) for that matter.
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- 8/13/2020
- by Robert Daniels
- The Playlist
The director of this unblinking account of the genocide in Belarus in 1942 and 1943 said that “people in America can’t watch my film. They have thrillers but this is something different.” He certainly got that right. A young farm boy is a witness to and victim of horrendous barbarism inflicted on a civilian population… now the most common kind of terror. The Politburo wanted a film to commemorate Victory Day, and director Elem Klimov gave them something nobody would forget. Although cinema gut-wrenchers have gone much further in the last 25 years, Kilmov’s unforgettable horrorshow rivets us through the haunted, paralyzed face of young actor Aleksei Kravchenko, who can scarcely process what he sees.
Come and See
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1035
1985 / Color / 1:37 / 143 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date June 30, 2020 / 39.95
Starring: Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas, Evgeniy Tilicheev, Viktors Lorencs, J¨ri Lumiste.
Cinematography: Alexei...
Come and See
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1035
1985 / Color / 1:37 / 143 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date June 30, 2020 / 39.95
Starring: Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas, Evgeniy Tilicheev, Viktors Lorencs, J¨ri Lumiste.
Cinematography: Alexei...
- 7/4/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Come And See At The Laemmle Monica | 1332 2nd St.
On March 6, Janus Films’ new 2K restoration of Soviet director Elem Klimov’s 1985 World War II drama Come and See will open at the Laemmle Monica Film Center. Set in 1943 Belarus and based on a book by Ales Adamovich and Janka Bryl (the former of whom co-wrote the screenplay with Klimov), the film follows the slow disillusionment of Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko, in an unshakable performance), a teenage resistance recruit who eagerly takes up arms on the Eastern Front against the Nazis only to witness a series of ...
On March 6, Janus Films’ new 2K restoration of Soviet director Elem Klimov’s 1985 World War II drama Come and See will open at the Laemmle Monica Film Center. Set in 1943 Belarus and based on a book by Ales Adamovich and Janka Bryl (the former of whom co-wrote the screenplay with Klimov), the film follows the slow disillusionment of Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko, in an unshakable performance), a teenage resistance recruit who eagerly takes up arms on the Eastern Front against the Nazis only to witness a series of ...
Come And See At The Laemmle Monica | 1332 2nd St.
On March 6, Janus Films’ new 2K restoration of Soviet director Elem Klimov’s 1985 World War II drama Come and See will open at the Laemmle Monica Film Center. Set in 1943 Belarus and based on a book by Ales Adamovich and Janka Bryl (the former of whom co-wrote the screenplay with Klimov), the film follows the slow disillusionment of Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko, in an unshakable performance), a teenage resistance recruit who eagerly takes up arms on the Eastern Front against the Nazis only to witness a series of ...
On March 6, Janus Films’ new 2K restoration of Soviet director Elem Klimov’s 1985 World War II drama Come and See will open at the Laemmle Monica Film Center. Set in 1943 Belarus and based on a book by Ales Adamovich and Janka Bryl (the former of whom co-wrote the screenplay with Klimov), the film follows the slow disillusionment of Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko, in an unshakable performance), a teenage resistance recruit who eagerly takes up arms on the Eastern Front against the Nazis only to witness a series of ...
A stark contrast from triumphalist Allied narratives of World War II, Elem Klimov’s spellbinding Belarus-set masterpiece Come and See–now playing in a beautiful new restoration from Janus Films–tells a harrowing story of the Eastern Front from the perspective of those for whom victory against the Nazis came at far too steep a price.
Based on Ales Adamovich’s painstakingly researched historical novel I Am from the Fiery Village (the author also co-wrote the screenplay with Klimov), Come and See follows Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko), a young boy from rural Belarus seeking to enlist with the Soviet Partisans, eager for martial glory even as he ignores warnings of impending doom. Once war breaks out, Flyora’s reality begins to warp and fold in on itself as he bears harrowing witness to the Nazis’ war crimes and the existential horror of total war.
Klimov’s technique, and thus the film...
Based on Ales Adamovich’s painstakingly researched historical novel I Am from the Fiery Village (the author also co-wrote the screenplay with Klimov), Come and See follows Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko), a young boy from rural Belarus seeking to enlist with the Soviet Partisans, eager for martial glory even as he ignores warnings of impending doom. Once war breaks out, Flyora’s reality begins to warp and fold in on itself as he bears harrowing witness to the Nazis’ war crimes and the existential horror of total war.
Klimov’s technique, and thus the film...
- 2/24/2020
- by Eli Friedberg
- The Film Stage
Accompanied by a younger friend, Belarusian teenager Florya digs through the sandy trenches that now pepper his native land. The boys scavenge for a weapon of some sort, a gun that might bolster their chances of acceptance into the partisan resistance against invading Nazi forces. Unearthing the paraphernalia of war’s remnants—helmets, radios, other discarded portents of recent death—the youth also mimic the crude language of an older individual, Florya’s uncle. In this fleeting moment of innocent enthusiasm, a preliminary indication of the innocence soon lost and irrevocably shattered, the two are excited by the possibilities of potential engagement. Though it’s not likely to diminish anyway, it’s nevertheless imperative that this early exhibition of juvenile conduct remains fixed in the mind for the duration of Come and See (Idi i smotri), Elem Klimov’s staggering 1985 anti-war epic, for all that transpires in the principally adult realm of ruination to come,...
- 2/12/2020
- MUBI
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