LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Lee Eisenberg In 1997, Aleksandr Sokurov released "Mother and Son", about the relationship between a mother and her son in a world that had pretty much no connection to them. His "Otets i syn" ("Father and Son" in English) focuses on the relationship between a father and his son. As with the previous movie, it's in a world that has apparently no connection to them, but this time it's in a city. This has to be one of the most mystifying movies that I've ever seen. I will say that I preferred Sokurov's previous movie to this one, but it's still worth seeing. Whether you interpret it as a look at the state of affairs in Russia, or a desire to break away from the modern world, "Father and Son" is probably not like anything that you've seen before. It's not any sort of masterpiece, but worth seeing.

Armand about love, choices, past and future. about life nuances and forms of crucification. about freedom and levels of sacrifice. about duty and need to bee more than shadow. about truth and father. son is only his part. behind words, in essence of feelings, on crumbs of questions. but snow covers all. as last song. or birth of a full solitude. a movie. Russian in every cell. bitter, warm, delicate, melancholic, simple, a declaration about small fragments who gives sense of day, space or room.beautiful in a cruel form, profound in direct mode.so many nuances and just a single seed. so impressive and strange. it looks like a flower and, in fact, can be a fruit.because movie is more than pictures of a complicated relationship. meditation about blood and lost, it is ash rain front of close window.

dick-56 Time has passed before seeing a film that was so heart warming and involving. I have ever loved slow and sometimes annoying movies. But for some reason I wasn't intrigued by the genre anymore (just know one of my favorite is 'Aliens''86).I started watching it and I felt so charmed by it all. The story is practically inexistent but you won't mind.The visual aspect and how things are going in this lovely and simple way can't let you indifferent.As some others said it is although sensual and homo erotic. Such a relationship between father and son is almost unthinkable but not impossible. This in fact is not that important seen the poor story 'content'.If you watch this movie in a relaxed way you will feel very good in the end, especially if you're not going with the idea of expecting great things.

mickeymcgowan The film is slow and maddening with a dream like feeling, perhaps as a metaphor for the unfulfilled erotic but forbidden love between a father and his son. I think the viewer feels the erotic attraction, and lack of sexual fulfillment, caused by the physical and psychological attachment and detachment of the the boy and his father. This is a taboo subject, the young man's sexual fantasy, towards dad, and the father's homoerotic attraction to his son. I applaud the presentation of this subject, after all what male has not had an admiration for a successful, physically beautiful, and loving father, or coach, or teacher. This film explores this admiration at a deeper and physical level which is portrayed as dreamlike, perhaps because these fantasies are in fact only never realized desires, which exist only in unconscious dreams.Although the film attempts to bring us this subject for both exposure and discussion, the film is torture because the subject is taboo and we'd rather not talk about it, and because there is only a lot of mental masturbation with no orgasm. And that is torture for all souls.