i saw this piece of pseudo intellectual crap a couple of year ago and and it be now make a comeback at the local film club . it use every cliché in the intellectual movie maker handbook ( beginner edition ) in order to appear as intellectual a the director probably imagine himself to be . you get your run of the mill slow motion tempo and brown color scale and slow pan through bomb out environment and blank and suffer facial expression and over symbolic imagery and and the requisite miserable end . it be a complete failure and an unintentional perfect caricature of the typical russian art movie . the director and aleksandr sokurov and have excellent command of technique and but he lack eye . he doesn not see when he cross the line into the realm of the pathetic . this movie be a wet dream for art film hater . it live up to every stereotypical view of the genre that there be . if it be bad in an entertaining way and it would a turkey . but for a movie that be so bad that you walk out afterwards royally ped off and we need a new term . this movie be a sokurov .