Rotten
Only those who still quiver at the shopworn lament that advancing technology is destroying the world will find the philosophizing vital in this bookish stupor.
Sam Weisberg, Village Voice
The Sacrifice
The final film of Andrei Tarkovsky
1986 · 2h 29m · PG
Drama
Directed by
Andrei Tarkovsky
Overview
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
Director and cast
- Andrei Tarkovsky Director
- Erland Josephson as Alexander
- Susan Fleetwood as Adelaide
- Allan Edwall as Otto
- Guðrún Gísladóttir as Maria
- Sven Wollter as Victor
- Valérie Mairesse as Julia
- Filippa Franzén as Marta
- Tommy Kjellqvist as Little Man
- Per Källman as Ambulance Driver
- Tommy Nordahl as Ambulance Driver
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A grand, unworldly, even antiworldly religious vision that depends on its perfect pitch to avoid absurdity and bathos.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Rotten
For those willing to acccept the tenets of Tarkovsky's cinema of spiritual quest, his esoteric notions of Christian iconography and his obscure approach to cinematic meaning, the film can seem nothing less than miraculous.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh
The Sacrifice is a stunningly beautiful film that holds your attention even while you feel slightly stunned, in a less welcome way, by what is actually going on.
Walter Goodman, New York Times
Fresh
Tarkovsky pulls you into a dark, foreboding nightmare and Nykvist [Bergman's former cameraman] gives that nightmare an explosive awakening.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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