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- Fri 4/25, 7:00pm - 8:30pm FAlexandra (0 cool kids going to Kabuki, 1881 Post Street) Links: Original Source | Who's going / Permalink
About: Considered "one of the least compromising directors in the world" by this year's Persistence of Vision awardee J. Hoberman, singularly gifted auteur Alexander Sokurov returns with this stunningly beautiful meditation on the banality of warfare and the familial ties that bind, personified by the unforgettable titular character. Alexandra (played to perfection by veteran Bolshoi Theater soprano Galina Vishnevskaya in her first film appearance) is a no-nonsense Russian matriarch in her seventies who travels by train to visit her beloved grandson, the captain of a military base in the Chechen Republic. The lone woman in this middle-of-nowhere landscape populated entirely by young, bare-chested soldiers waiting in limbo for orders to attack an unseen enemy, Alexandra is a most unlikely yet welc...
Tags: world cinema
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