in Finnish helmer Leena Kilpelainen’s enjoyable docu “The Voice of Sokurov.” Those hoping for a full biography should look elsewhere, and the film does little to illuminate his working methods. Instead, Kilpelainen’s interviews, shot over five years yet compiled as if done in seven days, looks at the breadth of the man’s achievements rather than the details, and is most interesting when the cultivated director offers insights into his way of thinking. “Voice” is an appealing fest item, likely to get further traction out of a 52-minute smallscreen edit.
Each interview is in a different locale in Sokurov’s beloved St. Petersburg, a city that’s nurtured him and features significantly in his oeuvre. In a prologue, the vet director speaks of his fearlessness, and offers that if he couldn’t work in Russia, he’d certainly leave. This pull, between the refined city he loves and...
Each interview is in a different locale in Sokurov’s beloved St. Petersburg, a city that’s nurtured him and features significantly in his oeuvre. In a prologue, the vet director speaks of his fearlessness, and offers that if he couldn’t work in Russia, he’d certainly leave. This pull, between the refined city he loves and...
- 9/21/2014
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety - Film News
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