Wednesday 31 October 2007 at 11.08am — Caroline says:
A real cinematic sense at work here in this story of fraternal relationships. The pacing was rather too languourous at times, but the visceral quality was always stunning, whether brutal or bucolic. You could almost smell the wet earth and the stink of unwashed bodies, and feel the freshness of the morning, but the cold of night,of hunger, fear and the pain of psychological and physical wounds. But just to carp a little; the film begins by telling us it is somewhere in the East and the date is 1810. Giving an exact date has no significance in this timeless story which is not linked to wider events, but the placing could have been less coy and more exact in that we have a longish section devoted to Cossack training. However, Micha Wald is a film maker and I eagerly wait to see what he will produce next.
A real cinematic sense at work here in this story of fraternal relationships. The pacing was rather too languourous at times, but the visceral quality was always stunning, whether brutal or bucolic. You could almost smell the wet earth and the stink of unwashed bodies, and feel the freshness of the morning, but the cold of night,of hunger, fear and the pain of psychological and physical wounds. But just to carp a little; the film begins by telling us it is somewhere in the East and the date is 1810. Giving an exact date has no significance in this timeless story which is not linked to wider events, but the placing could have been less coy and more exact in that we have a longish section devoted to Cossack training. However, Micha Wald is a film maker and I eagerly wait to see what he will produce next.