New DVD/Bluray for 2014 – Perestroika/Perestroika Reconstructed

December 19, 2013

An autobiographical documentary, a fiction that’s also an essay and an extended poetic meditation on the ability of the image to represent experience. Sarah Turner’s film is a ghost story that explores what we forget and how we remember.


Film of the Month, Sight and Sound, October 2010

“A ruined hotel. A lake as big as a sea. And a death, never explained but by now as momentous to us, and as engulfing, as a black hole. What begins as a travelogue with philosophical trimmings turns into a puzzle picture worthy of Resnais or Antonioni.”


Nigel Andrews, Financial Times

“Elegantly photographed, sound- designed to precise and goose- bumping effect, this is a rare and haunting work of memory-gleaning.”


Sukdev Sandhu, The Telegraph

“Conceived with intelligence and arresting intensity”

 

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