Mother and Son (1997)
Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov
A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.
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What critics compared Mother and Son to
Although the most accessible of the director's four features, the drama sometimes waivers between pretension and profundity -- at best recalling the Russian art cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky ("Ivan's Childhood") and Aleksandr Sokurov ("Mother and Son").
For me, the film ranks with works like Kieslowski’s Double Life of Veronique, Ozu’s Tokyo Story, Kurosawa’s Ran, Kitano’s Hana-bi, Sokurov’s Mother and Son, Malick’s The Tree of Life, or other narrative films in which the visuals are so overwhelming, hypnotic and utterly transcendental that trying to capture much of what the film has to say in words is impossible.
Because Sokurov does almost everything in pairs or series (see: the Tetralogy Of Power, Mother And Son and Father And Son , his St. Petersburg Diary and Elegy documentaries, etc.), it was only a matter of time before he would make a companion piece of sorts to Russian Ark, set at another world-class museum.