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Come and See

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Come and See (1985)

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Reviews Counted:17

Fresh:16

Rotten:1

Average Rating:7.9/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 22 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: Elem Klimov's stunning COME AND SEE is a relentlessly brutal condemnation of war hidden in the guise of a surrealistic coming-of-age nightmare. A physically and emotionally draining viewing... Elem Klimov's stunning COME AND SEE is a relentlessly brutal condemnation of war hidden in the guise of a surrealistic coming-of-age nightmare. A physically and emotionally draining viewing experience, the film follows Florya (played brilliantly by Alexei Kravchenko), a 12-year-old boy living in 1943 Byelorussia. When he digs up an abandoned gun, Florya gleefully signs up with the Russian Army, looking forward to life as a soldier. But that fantasy rapidly deteriorates when the reality of the situation confronts him head-on. Abandoned by his fellow comrades, he stumbles across the weeping Glasha (Olga Mironova), a pretty teenager who has also been left behind. Together, the pair returns to Florya's village only to discover that everyone has been slaughtered--Florya's mother and younger sisters included. The journey continues as Florya embarks on a mission to find food for the stranded inhabitants of a neighboring village. He eventually lands in the middle of another German massacre, where the animalistic Nazis stuff the Russians into a barn and torch it, obliterating Florya's innocence completely. Klimov's unflinching masterpiece is all the more affecting because of the beauty of its imagery. Working on a variety of levels, COME AND SEE speaks both as personal statement and broad metaphor, making it a timeless, unforgettable achievement. [More]

Starring: Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius

Starring: Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius

Director: Elem Klimov

Director: Elem Klimov
Screenwriter: Elem Klimov, Ales Adamovich
Composer: Oleg Yanchenko, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Studio: Kino International

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A relentless masterpiece, and a brilliant study of the cause and effect nature of brutality.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
05/06/06
Ian Nathan
Ian Nathan
Empire Magazine
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A disorienting and undifferentiated amalgam of almost lyrical poeticism and expressionist nightmare.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Wally Hammond
Wally Hammond
Time Out
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This is a real horror film -- it's painful to watch and there's no escape through thinking it's only a movie -- and it's correspondingly impressive.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
03/24/04
Sam Jordison
Sam Jordison
Channel 4 Film
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Or: Ivan Got His Gun

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment Comment
11/17/09
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

One of the greatest films ever made, Elem Klimov's anti-war masterpiece is ironically named, as those with weak stomachs may want to steer clear.

Full Review Source: Film and Felt | comment Comment
05/24/09
Gabe Leibowitz
Gabe Leibowitz
Film and Felt

Stalingrad-born Elem Klimov's "Come and See" is a undiluted expression of cinematic poetry in the service of an unspeakably turbulent anti-war narrative about the 628 Byelorussian Villages burnt to the ground along with their inhabitants by the Nazis duri

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
05/05/09
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

A highly charged, emotionally exhausting indictment of war and the inhumanity of the Nazis, set in Byelorussia during the 1943 Nazi invasion.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
10/15/07
TV Guide's Movie Guide

I suppose that never forgetting has its place, but not when it insists on such narrowly righteous fantasies of revenge.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment 1 Comment
10/15/07
Pat Graham
Pat Graham
Chicago Reader

Come and See, the last and most notable film made by the former Soviet director Elem Klimov, is another fusion of popular and vanguard styles, albeit put to more civic-minded use.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
10/15/07
J. Hoberman
J. Hoberman
Village Voice

In Klimov's unshakable vision, death is casual, safety is impossible and beauty is backwards: this is peerlessly gorgeous filmmaking about absolute ugliness.

Full Review Source: eye WEEKLY | comment Comment
10/15/07
Adam Nayman
Adam Nayman
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Occupying territory somewhere between Ivan's Childhood and Fateless, Come And See is an intimate epic in which all the promise of adolescence is perverted by war.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
07/03/07
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Eye for Film

This Soviet-era Russian film displays the horrors of World War II in a manner that makes The Deer Hunter look like The Green Berets.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Ron Wells
Ron Wells
Film Threat

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06/14/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Scene for scene, Mr. Klimov proves a master of a sort of unreal realism that seeks to get at events terrible beyond comprehension.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
08/30/04
Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
New York Times
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Almost too chilling....it haunts beyond the point of entertainment.

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11/05/02
Steven Snyder
Steven Snyder
Greater Milwaukee Today

Come and See succeeds through its use of nightmarish un-reality -- how we might see these events not through a documentary objectivity, but through an uncomprehending gaze of horror.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
07/02/01
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Come and See sounds like an invitation to a child's game. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
01/01/00
Rita Kempley
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
 
 
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