Homeward (2019)
(Evge)
Country: UKR
Technical: col/2.39:1 96m
Director: Nariman Aliev
Cast: Akhtem Seitablaev, Remzi Bilyalov, Dariya Barikhashvili
Synopsis:
When his elder brother is killed in action, the boy's father hoicks him out of university in Kiev to help him transport the body back to his Tatar homeland in the Crimea.
Review:
Tense road movie set 'between the wars' in the Ukraine. Father and son are initially estranged but bond over shared challenges and new tricks. However, there is ambiguity too, and one could read the film as a gradual indoctrination of the son to the point of enslavement: the boy is taken away from education, taught to knife fight and eventually turned into an outlaw. The final image shows him locked into a doubly Sisyphean struggle in a featureless landscape. Having said that, one suspects the maker's sympathies lie securely with the father and his sense of heimat.
(Evge)
Country: UKR
Technical: col/2.39:1 96m
Director: Nariman Aliev
Cast: Akhtem Seitablaev, Remzi Bilyalov, Dariya Barikhashvili
Synopsis:
When his elder brother is killed in action, the boy's father hoicks him out of university in Kiev to help him transport the body back to his Tatar homeland in the Crimea.
Review:
Tense road movie set 'between the wars' in the Ukraine. Father and son are initially estranged but bond over shared challenges and new tricks. However, there is ambiguity too, and one could read the film as a gradual indoctrination of the son to the point of enslavement: the boy is taken away from education, taught to knife fight and eventually turned into an outlaw. The final image shows him locked into a doubly Sisyphean struggle in a featureless landscape. Having said that, one suspects the maker's sympathies lie securely with the father and his sense of heimat.
(Evge)
Country: UKR
Technical: col/2.39:1 96m
Director: Nariman Aliev
Cast: Akhtem Seitablaev, Remzi Bilyalov, Dariya Barikhashvili
Synopsis:
When his elder brother is killed in action, the boy's father hoicks him out of university in Kiev to help him transport the body back to his Tatar homeland in the Crimea.
Review:
Tense road movie set 'between the wars' in the Ukraine. Father and son are initially estranged but bond over shared challenges and new tricks. However, there is ambiguity too, and one could read the film as a gradual indoctrination of the son to the point of enslavement: the boy is taken away from education, taught to knife fight and eventually turned into an outlaw. The final image shows him locked into a doubly Sisyphean struggle in a featureless landscape. Having said that, one suspects the maker's sympathies lie securely with the father and his sense of heimat.