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...Technology. Nietzsche. These are the issues that plague Alexander (Erland Josephson), a former actor and disaffected professor. He has retired to his Swedish summer home to celebrate his birthday, and as the film opens we see him planting a tree on the beach with his son, Little Man (Tommy Kjellqvist), attended by the local postman, Otto (Allan Edwall). The opening shot is awesome--10 minutes long, sustained and uncut, the camera moving with snail-like fury closer and closer toward the central characters. By the time we see their faces, we're desperate to, hungry to; Tarkovsky knows...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: A Brilliant Sacrifice | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

...film. The Sacrifice comprises 24 hours in the lives of eight people at a secluded summer house. The upstairs quartet is Alexander (Josephson), a former actor who now teaches aesthetics; his English wife (Susan Fleetwood); a grown daughter (Filippa Franzen); and an adored son called Little Man (Tommy Kjellqvist). In various levels of the servant class are two maids, Julia (Valerie Mairesse) and Maria (Gudrun Gisladottir); Victor (Sven Wollter), a handsome doctor who attends the illnesses and neuroses of this frazzled family; and Otto (Allan Edwall), a postman who spouts Nietzsche, and will goad Alexander toward the starring role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: End-of-the- World Blues the Sacrifice | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

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