MOTHER AND SON (1997)
HOSTED BY JOS KOETSIER
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DIRECTED BY ALEKSANDR SOKUROV
In his spare, intense, lyrical ''Mother and Son,'' Sokurov immerses the viewer in an isolated landscape that resonates with pain and loneliness as a young man tends his dying mother. On the surface, little happens. In a small house in the countryside of Russia, a son cares for his sick, elderly mother as they prepare for her death...