Sheremetevo-2 (1990)

1990
August 13, 2022

A middle-aged businessman decides to emigrate with his young wife due to some unscrupulous people extorting money from him, even kidnapping his wife to show that they’re serious. But before they leave, a handsome young artist bonks his wife first.

Save and Protect (1989)

1989
November 13, 2021

Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall: affairs with the aristocratic Rodolphe and the student Leon, the humiliation that follows her husband’s botching of the operation on the stable boy’s clubfoot. The universality of the theme of eternal struggle between the soul and the flesh is conveyed through the absence of specific reference to time or place: although the film seems to begin […]