Hard to believe it was made a couple of years before Platoon, yet when Platoon came out critics, etc., were going on about that being the ultimate war movie. Come & See is so incredibly disturbing that I find myself amazed, in retrospect, that it hasn''t garnered more accolades than it has, or is even considered int he same universe of films as Platoon or Full Metal Jacket. I think Klimov's film even blows stuff like Schindler's List, Apocalypse Now, etc., out of the water. It "transcends the genre," as they say -- it isn't "merely" a war movie, like Peckinpah's _Cross of Iron_, or something. It's a deeply disturbing, psychologically compelling film.
-B.
Chris Doss wrote:
"For those interested in such things, a sequel is being made to the classic Gorbachev-era movie Malenkaya Vera (Little Vera). (Gorby-era movies tend to be dark, likethat one and a series of crime dramas I can think of.) Anyway it's the same director and the same actress playing Vera, 20 years on. IIRC that was the first Russian film to depict sex. OK I know Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears did it first, but that part was edited out in the Soviet version."