The Sacrifice (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Run Time: 2 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 15, 2018
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Kino Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Erland Josephson | |
Performer: | Susan Fleetwood & Valérie Mairesse | |
Directed by | Andrei Tarkovsky & Sven Nykvist | |
Composition by | Watazumido Shuso |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1986 -
Jury Prize: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1 /10 --
Medical thriller that frequently appears inspired by THE WICKER MAN and perhaps THE STEPFORD WIVES
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Mark Leeper's Reviews
Rating: 7/10 --
"...a well-done genre film, full of familiar tropes used effectively and some interesting twists as well."
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Playback:stl
Rating: 2.5/5 --
It plays out like one would expect, but quickly turns into a chase that loses a bit of its luster long before the finale comes along.
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Punch Drunk Critics
Rating: 2/4 --
Sacrifice, while far from a waste of time, just isn't interesting enough to bother with, the only mystery being why anyone thought it was strong enough to garner a theatrical release in the first place.
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MovieFreak.com
Rating: 0.5/4 --
This movie should be taught in film school-just as Hitchcock movies can teach filmmaking, so can their failed imitators provide us with elementary examples of when technique goes horribly wrong.
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RogerEbert.com
This watered-down throwback to The Wicker Man never really heats up.
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Village Voice
Rating: C+ --
The film's opening, American set scene is actually its most horrific, but there are still moments to be had on Shetland where events recall "The Stepford Wives" crossed with "The Wicker Man."
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Product Description:
Set in Sweden, Andrei Tarkovsky's last film follows the travails of wealthy patriarch Alexander (Erland Josephson), a former actor and critic who lives in a remote home on the edge of the Baltic Sea. One year on his birthday, a sudden television announcement interrupts the celebration with news of a nuclear holocaust. His family and guests suffer through violent fits of hysteria and emotional turmoil in the ensuing days, but the previously troubled Alexander finds a clearness of mind when he makes a pact with God--offering himself as a sacrifice in order to redeem the fallen earth for his cherished son. Supremely poetic, THE SACRIFICE is filled with achingly beautiful images, expertly shot by Ingmar Bergman's trusted cinematographer Sven Nykvist. As Alexander goes from self-contented ease to crippling animal fear and existential anguish and finally to spiritual abandon, the troubled journey is illustrated with a haunting succession of images, tableaus, objects, dreams, and gestures--all sewn together in a seamlessly elliptical vision. As in all of Tarkovsky's haunting and mystical films, the characters are forced to come to terms with their own physical and spiritual existence, with redemption coming through faith--in this case, Alexander's faith in his love for his young son.
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- Sales Rank: 67,485
- UPC: 738329230210
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