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What would you do if world events unfolded such that you knew that certain death was not only soon to befall you but also your country, all those you loved, and most heart breakingly, your one and only young son? In your darkest hour, would you seek to enter into a desperate deal with God? And say he came through, would you be able to keep up your end of the bargain?
These are the dark questions that Andrei Tarkovsky's achingly beautiful film, The Sacrifice, confronts as protagonist, Alexander and his family lie in wait for an almost certain nuclear holocaust.
The Sacrifice is another other worldy study in slowness from the great Russian filmmaker, Andrei Tarkovsky, and is a film not to be missed.
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"Hitchcock not only intensified cinema, he intensified life."- Francois Truffaut