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Come and See

Idi i smotri (Come and See)

1985

Elem Klimov

Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas, Victor Lorents

7.8

8,133

War. Drama During WWII, a Belarusian boy is thrust into the atrocities of war, fighting with a hopelessly unequipped Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces. Witnessing scenes of abject terror and surviving horrifying situations, he loses his innocence and then his mind.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"A relentless masterpiece, and a brilliant study of the cause and effect nature of brutality (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"One of the most devastating films ever about anything (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Pat Graham Chicago Reader	"A film longer on outrage than complex understanding"	NEU
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"[Its] documentary-like realism is made all the more powerful by the boldly poetic depiction of war that precedes it"	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"This is not a film that’s easily forgotten, designed as it is (...) as something of an imprint from another world and time"	POS
United States	Walter Goodman The New York Times	"The effects have stopped working (...) Yet scene for scene, Mr. Klimov proves a master of a sort of unreal realism that seeks to get at events terrible beyond comprehension"	NEU
Australia	Travis Johnson FilmInk	"'Come and See' will leave you a complete wreck. It’s the single most harrowing, depressing, god-is-dead-and-we-are-in-hell war movie ever made"	POS
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"The greatest war film ever made"	POS

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