Silent Souls

Silent Souls Russian , The Buntings is a 2010 Russian film that was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice Film Festival. It is based on a 2008 novella by Denis Osokin. The film was awarded the Golden Osella for best cinematography and a FIPRESCI award. It was considered a frontrunner for the Golden Lion, but did not win.

Silent Souls received considerable praise from film critics. The official Rossiyskaya Gazeta compared the film to Tarkovskys best work as a powerful evocation of preChristian roots of rural Russia. Andrei Plakhov praised the film as a metaphor for the lost and probably mythical world that was crushed by the moloch of industrialisation.Among American critics, Jim Hoberman wrote Dour yet affirmative, this laconic, deliberately paced, beautifully shot movie seeks the archaic in the ordinary. Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times commented Populated by memories and dappled with desire, Silent Souls is part folk tale, part lesson in letting go. In its quiet acceptance of the passing of time, this unusual film reminds us that to die is not always the same as to disappear. Roger Ebert expressed the opinion that the film in only 75 perfect minutes achieves the profundity of an epic, also mentioning that not often have I been more deeply touched. ........

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