i love this movie . it the fine parody of russian cinema to date . who else but sokurov could lampoon tarkovsky so brilliantly . you think stalker be slow . well and step up to the plate . mat i syn make stalker look like raider of the lose ark . by no mean should you miss this film . there no excuse even if you live a busy life and you can still enjoy this film to it full by hold down the fast forward button on your vcr . sokurov have give u the first feature length film that can be appreciate in 12 minute . i suppose the next great masterpiece of the form will come when someone have the vision and courage to exhibit a film that consist of no sound or image at all 45 minute of a black and silent screen ( wasn not this already explore in in the soup . ) . apparently the filmmaker ( and fan ) have forget that motion be the first word of motion picture . major spoiler ahead . want to reach the height of genius that this film achieve . here a step by step guide represent1 . find a talented photographer . 2. find some subject and a suitably picturesque landscape ( think tuscany . ) . if you need inspiration and watch some luxury car or perfume commercial . 3. shoot about 3 roll of film . 4. photoshop the result to play around with saturation and blur and aspect ratio . 5. now just get out your movie camera and film 40 of the best picture and have your actor mumble their line off screen . don not worry about write it ahead of time just let the actor say whatever they want ( line like do you want a drink . and let get something to eat be really all you need to fill up 8 minute or so ) . if you can not think of enough dialog no problem . just have them repeat what they say a few time . if that still isn not enough and just let the camera run anyway . congratulation and another masterpiece . a a bonus and if you want to distribute it over the internet and no problem . the static image will compress down to nothing with standard mpeg encode a 73 minute movie would probably be about 2 3 megabyte and even at the high quality level .