Bass Museum of Art
SCREENING
Father and Son (Otets i syn/ Îòåö è ñûí)(Russia/2003)
Thursday, December 18 – 8:30pm

Film Series in conjunction with the Russian Dreams exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art:
THE DREAMS OF ALEKSANDR SOKUROV FILM RETROSPECTIVE IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MIAMI BEACH CINEMATHEQUE
All films screened at the Miami Beach Cinematheque, 512 Española Way, Miami Beach except Russian Ark on Jan 11, which screens at the Bass Museum of Art.
Thursday, December 18 – 8:30pm
Father and Son (Otets i syn/ Îòåö è ñûí) (Ru ssia/2003)
With Andrei Shchetinin and Aleksei Nejmyshev
Father and Son won the FIPRESCI prize at the Cannes Film Festival with the following note from the critics who gave the award: “For brilliant images and the director’s original way of depicting the powerful bond that unites a father and a son.” The film is part of a trilogy begun with Mother and Son, and will end with the planned Two Brothers and a Sister. With one of the most poetic films ever made, Sokorov shows that intensity of emotions and imagery associated with human intimacy does not need to be associated with sexuality (which some critics read into the film’s premise, incorrectly, according to the director himself).
WINNER: Cannes Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize Russian Guild of Film Critics Golden Aries for Art Direction.
“ACHINGLY BEAUTIFUL… dreamily seductive and profoundly disturbing”–BBC
“LIKE A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM. Its images and emotions are vivid, disquieting and also hermetic, and while it may frustrate your desire for clear storytelling and psychological transparency, it has an intensity that surpasses understanding.” -New York Times
Tickets are $10 or $7 MBC and Bass Museum Members, and advance tickets are available at www.MBCinema.com.
UPCOMING FILMS:
Thursday, January 08 – 8:30pm
Aleksandra (Àëåêñàí 28;ðà)(Russia/2007)
Sunday, January 11th 2009 – 6:30pm at the Bass Museum
Russian Ark, 2002 (96 minutes)