Bass Museum of Art
SCREENING
Mother and Son (Mat i syn/ Ìàòü è ñûí) (Russia/1997)
Thursday, December 11 – 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 11 – 8:30pm
Mother and Son (Mat i syn/ Ìàòü è ñûí)(Russia/1997)
With Gudrun Geyer and Alexei Ananishnov Mother and Son is a love story about the deep affection that exists between a mother and her son, which Sokurov portrays as the greatest love in the world: primal, life-giving and pure. The characters are seen within and against a landscape of melancholy beauty, which Sokurov uses like a German Romantic painter. When the mother dies, the son is left entirely alone in a world which offers little comfort.
“ONE OF THE GREATEST FILMS EVER SEEN!”- Combustible Celluloid
“SOKUROV IS WHAT CINEMA CAN BE AT ITS GREATEST!”- Susan Sontag
“**** One of those rare works that extends the art of film, suggesting for all its melancholy that movies do have a future.” – Dave Kehr, DAILY NEWS
Tickets are $10 or $7 MBC and Bass Museum Members, and advance tickets are available at www.MBCinema.com.
UPCOMING FILMS:
Thursday, December 18 – 8:30pm
Father and Son (Otets i syn/ Îòåö è ñûí) (Russia/2003)
Thursday, January 08 – 8:30pm
Aleksandra (Àëåêñàíäðà)(Russia/2007)
Sunday, January 11th 2009 – 6:30pm at the Bass Museum
Russian Ark, 2002 (96 minutes)