It also has a score of 64 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Reception Critical response įather and Son has an approval rating of 68% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 41 reviews, and an average rating of 6.35/10.
The film's linear narrative, enclosed within the circular frame, collapses into a weekend events that have occurred over time, but which Aleksei has linked together in his nightmare into a single series of events, through which he relives Father's unlimited love for him and his own failure to understand and/or appreciate that love. Father's status as Aleksei's guardian angel explains the physical closeness displayed by the two men, which has been interpreted by some as sexual intimacy. The mise-en-scene of the framing scenes (e.g., Father's sitting down in the snow in his pajamas) together with intertextual references to famous painterly depictions of angels Sokurov quotes (e.g., Rembrandt's Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) identify Father as Aleksei's guardian angel, who returns from death (the result of his combat wounds) to protect and comfort his son.
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The film opens and closes with scenes from the circular structure, in which Father comforts Aleksei, who has just had one of his nightmare the film concludes when Father retires to the rooftop to await Aleksei's next cry for help. Beggar Dressed in Corset and Performing Obscene Dance. Regarded by some as "plotless," like many Sokurov films, Father and Son combines two narrative structures, one circular, the other linear. Given Father's youthfulness, he and Aleksei seem to understand each other, yet their life experiences separate them, and over the course of the film a rift gradually develops between them, that rift and Aleksei's reaction to it becoming the source of his subsequent nightmares. The Father is a former combat helicopter pilot, and Aleksei attends military school where he is studying to become a sports trainer. A father (Father) and his son Aleksei share a roof-top apartment in an unidentified seaside city.