![]() There are cultural differences here: one remembers the Russian soldiers in Cartier-Bresson's Fifties photo holding hands in a museum. The director has declared himself shocked and irritated by our feeling that the content is homoerotic, and therefore incestuous. Everything in Father and Son is seen in soft focus through a pale amber/gold filter. The film begins with a manly tussle - of son and dad, naked in a bed, filmed abstractly, showing only parts of the body in grainy low light, like the lovemaking scene of the French model and the Japanese architect in the sand at the opening of Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour. The classes seem to consist of manly tussling in camouflage gear. ![]() Alexandr (Russian Ark) Sokorov's Father and Son (Otets y sin) wow! What a beautiful, dreamlike, homoerotic film, and also what a wildly self-indulgent one! A beefy man (Andrei Schetinin), a soldier, we're told, who smiles a lot and looks like Farley Granger (his acting seems to consist mostly of smiling), has a son, Aleksei (Aleksei Neymyshev), who looks like his younger brother but has broader shoulders and an even more spectacularly defined body, and who is studying medicine in military school.
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