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Save and Protect
Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall: affairs with the aristocratic Rodolphe and the student Leon, the humiliation that follows her husband’s botching of the operation on the stable boy’s clubfoot. The universality of the theme of eternal struggle between the soul and the flesh is conveyed through the absence of specific reference to time or place: although the film seems to begin in 1840, its surreal mode effortlessly accommodates an automobile and the strains of “When the Saints Go Marching In” on an off-screen radio. Focusing on passion from a woman’s perspective and downplaying plot, Sokurov explores his subject in exquisite detail, capturing not only the heat of passion but also the quiet moments before and after and the innocent sensuousness of the body.
| Release : | 1990 |
| Rating : | 6.4 |
| Studio : | Lenfilm, Tretye Tvorcheskoe Obyedinenie, Interpromex Industrieanlagen GmbH, |
| Crew : | Art Direction, Director of Photography, |
| Cast : | Robert Vaab Aleksandr Cherednik Dariya Shpalikova Evgeny Yufit Igor Bezrukov |
| Genre : | Drama |
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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
Fresh and Exciting
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
