Friday, October 26, 2007

The Banishment, by Andrei Zvyagintsev

However you look at it, a masterpiece in a true sense.



"It is truly something to see; for among all the lives to be ruined it is a visual rhapsody, attentive to every nuance in the spectacular land and foliage around the family home, following the lives within as meticulously as it traces the dramatic changes in weather — from clear day to torrential showers — in one of the longest, most intricate and beautiful tracking shots in cinema."