The Return (Blu-ray)
The past never dies. It kills.
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: June 26, 2018
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Lorber Films (Kino)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Konstantin Lavronenko & Natalia Vdovina | |
Directed by | Andrey Zvyagintsev | |
Music by | Andrey Dergatchev | |
Screenwriting by | Vladimir Moiseenko & Alexander Novotsky | |
Produced by | Dmitry Lesnevsky | |
Director of Photography: | Mikhail Kritschmen |
Entertainment Reviews:
Beautifully structured and emotionally wrenching.
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Chicago Reader
[A] film of gruffly beautiful images...
Premiere
Constructed like an eerie, metaphorical thriller, this tense, riveting character study offers viewers nearly two hours of emotions with a stunning pay-off no one will be expecting.
Variety
Rating: 7/10 --
magnificent return of a great cinema tradition to the world stage
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Draxblog Movie Reviews
Zvyagintsev gets formidable concentration from his youthful actors, and his storytelling moves with the simplicity -- calm, chiselled, and suggestive -- of a fable.
New Yorker
Rating: B- --
Throughout his expertly controlled film, Zvyagintsev never allows a break in the clouds to provide some reassuring sign that the brothers are on solid footing.
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AV Club
The story, set in contemporary Russia, seems unexceptional at the start. Yet it plays out against a vast wilderness of shorelines and lakes, and turns tantalizing ambiguity into urgent mystery.
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Wall Street Journal
Product Description:
Director Andrei Zvyagintsev makes a phenomenally assured directorial debut with THE RETURN. The spare tale focuses on two young brothers, Andrey (Vladimir Garin) and Vanya (Ivan Dobronravov), whose lives are thrown into a tailspin when their father (Konstantin Lavroneko) returns after a 12-year absence. Bullish and intense, the patriarch takes the boys on a mysterious journey through a bleak yet beautiful Russian landscape. While Andrey looks up to his father, Vanya has trouble forgiving him for disappearing so many years ago. This strain adds even more drama to the already tense atmosphere, culminating in a shocking event that will change their lives forever.
Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2003 Venice Film Festival, THE RETURN is a masterful drama that works on an allegorical, as well as literal, level. Zvyaginstev's imagery is at once painterly, abstract, and realistic. Newcomers Garin and Dobronravov deliver performances that are deeply affecting. In a cruel twist of irony, actor Garin drowned just after shooting in the same water where the opening scene took place, which adds another level of bleakness to the film's somber tone. THE RETURN is a truly haunting work of art.
Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2003 Venice Film Festival, THE RETURN is a masterful drama that works on an allegorical, as well as literal, level. Zvyaginstev's imagery is at once painterly, abstract, and realistic. Newcomers Garin and Dobronravov deliver performances that are deeply affecting. In a cruel twist of irony, actor Garin drowned just after shooting in the same water where the opening scene took place, which adds another level of bleakness to the film's somber tone. THE RETURN is a truly haunting work of art.
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