Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov
Writing credits Aleksandr Sokurov
Cinematography by A. Fedorov
Film Editing by L. Semenova
Country: Russia
Language: Russian
Color: Color
Subtitles: English, Spanish, Italian, French, German
"Povinnost" está rodado en video analógico con una Betacam SP, lo que se nota claramente en la imagen, y que Sokurov utiliza para conseguir esos colores apagados y le da un mayor ambiente claustrofóbico.
Alexander Sokurov's Confession is like no other movie you will ever see. Visceral and at times brutal, it's a livid illustration of the effects of monotony and oppression on the spirit. More than anything else, this haunting film presents a world of unremitting bleakness, a world of suppressed desires and unspoken despair.
Confession is also specifically Russian. No other nation has been so bound to the concept of fatalism as a way of life, and this portrait of oblivion on the edge of the Arctic circle captures it. The film stands resolutely in the tradition of Russia's massive literary achievements (see also, Dostoyevski and Solzhenitsyn), but whereas the literary tradition allows for copious internal explication, Sokurov's cinematic eye renders the epic scope of the Russian character as a vast and opaque emotional wilderness.
For Sokurov the military theme has long been interpreted as an existential one and so service on the frontiers, be they land or sea, becomes a metaphor for human behaviour. Compulsory military service, an institution that remains in the shattered civic life of Russia, is viewed by the film–maker as an essential feature of reality, something that touches everyone — males and females, those who have served in the army, those who have avoided it. It is a life of submission, a lack of freedom, a dependence on circumstances, of seclusion and the monotony of the daily routine. It's not just the people stuck in the frontier patrol ship, putting out to sea, who appreciate this — everyone knows what it means. Sokurov's camera transforms the details it captures drawn from real people, the military seamen (including the principal protagonist, the Ship Commander) and the circumstance of their actual daily routine, into characters in a story. The young Commander's troubled meditations about his fate and profession are incorporated by Sokurov into the dialogue and he comes to be the film–maker's alter–ego. As in “Spiritual Voices,” the chronicle rejects the expected (televisual) structure and becomes a form of traditional narrative — a lyrical diary.
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http://www.dvdtown.com/review/confession/15797/2784/
http://sokurov.spb.ru/island_en/documet ... p_pov.html
http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/ ... -dvd.shtml
http://www.ce-review.org/00/3/kinoeye3_totaro.html
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