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The Sacrifice

Offret

1986

Andrei Tarkovsky

Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Valérie Mairesse, Allan Edwall ...

7.6

7,569

Drama Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have the war not happened at all.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'The Sacrifice' is not the sort of movie most people will choose to see, but those with the imagination to risk it may find it rewarding (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is brilliant and audacious, with one of the most extraordinary final sequences in modern cinema (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Walter Goodman The New York Times	"[It] is a stunningly beautiful film that holds your attention even while you feel slightly stunned"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"It's a fitting apocalyptic statement (...) The first and penultimate shots (...) manage to say more than most films do over their entire length"	POS
United States	Andrew Sarris Village Voice	"Hang on to the very end and you may find yourself moved as you have never been moved before."	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"The blend of midlife crisis and existential terror is reminiscent of the films of Ingmar Bergman, but Tarkovsky makes it a world of his own."	POS
United Kingdom	Nick Dawson Empire	"As involving and intellectually rich as all Tarkovsky's work (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Carson Lund Slant	"'The Sacrifice' eventually transcends the flaws in its design (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Trout BBC	"It is a difficult film (...) yet a profoundly satifying one (...) The sheer quality of the cinematic experience is remarkable (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Wally Hammond Time Out	"Beautifully composed and superbly shot (...) Closer to a study of madness and self-delusion than, as I believe Tarkovsky hoped, an illustration of the power of faith and self-sacrifice."	NEU
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"The rigid formalism and uncompromising detachment may tax some viewers, but Tarkovsky firmly believed film didn't need to be enjoyable to be valuable (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"Some of those ideas lack clarity (...) 'The Sacrifice's one unambiguous triumph is Nykvist’s photography"	NEU

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