A relentless masterpiece, and a brilliant study of the cause and effect nature of brutality.
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05/06/06
Come and See (1985)
93 %
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Reviews Counted: 15
Fresh: 14
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7.8/10
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 experience, the film follows Florya (played... [More]
Starring: Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius
Director: Elem Klimov
Reviews for Come and See
1 - 15 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top Critic A disorienting and undifferentiated amalgam of almost lyrical poeticism and expressionist nightmare.
02/09/06
Top Critic 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.
03/24/04
Top Critic A highly charged, emotionally exhausting indictment of war and the inhumanity of the Nazis, set in Byelorussia during the 1943 Nazi invasion.
10/15/07
I suppose that never forgetting has its place, but not when it insists on such narrowly righteous fantasies of revenge.
10/15/07
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.
10/15/07
In Klimov's unshakable vision, death is casual, safety is impossible and beauty is backwards: this is peerlessly gorgeous filmmaking about absolute ugliness.
10/15/07
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.
07/03/07
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.
12/06/05
Scene for scene, Mr. Klimov proves a master of a sort of unreal realism that seeks to get at events terrible beyond comprehension.
08/30/04
Top Critic 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.
07/02/01
Come and See sounds like an invitation to a child's game. Nothing could be further from the truth.
01/01/00
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