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Watch the legendary COME AND SEE (1985)–perhaps the most visceral antiwar movie ever made–on Criterion's streaming service, The Criterion Channel: criterionchannel.com/come-and-see
Watch Cooper Hoffman's full Closet Picks: youtu.be/ZCxYGx6ueNM
*About _Come and See_*
This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty—rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov’s subjective camera work and expressionistic sound design. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet censors, who took seven years to approve its script, COME AND SEE is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.
Subscribe to Criterion: youtube.com/channel/UCAP57cF-FSjJKzzXg7ntPlQ?sub_confirmation=1
Watch the legendary COME AND SEE (1985)–perhaps the most visceral antiwar movie ever made–on Criterion's streaming service, The Criterion Channel: criterionchannel.com/come-and-see
Watch Cooper Hoffman's full Closet Picks: youtu.be/ZCxYGx6ueNM
*About _Come and See_*
This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty—rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov’s subjective camera work and expressionistic sound design. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet censors, who took seven years to approve its script, COME AND SEE is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.
