The Sacrifice (1986)

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Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind... (imdb)

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Genre: Drama

AKA: Offret

Country: France, Sweden, UK

Directed By: Andrei Tarkovsky

Written By: Andrei Tarkovsky

Starring: Valérie Mairesse, Erland Josephson, Sven Wollter, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall

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Jan 23	Dunu	89 _93%
Jan 17	dcatcher	95 _99%
Jan 16	ozgurrt	90 _92%
Jan 16	Eastwood	100 _97%
Jan 13	uarrecep	100 _95%
Jan 12	WfAg9N	90 _73%
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Dec 26, 2020	Rob97	96 _85%
Dec 25, 2020	Alcofribas	85 _86%
Dec 24, 2020	blueandred	3 _63%
Dec 24, 2020	AverageGames	72 _54%
Dec 20, 2020	NewPhilip	30 _3%
I guess smart phones has made me smooth brained and incapable of staying focused or something, but I was bored as hell
Dec 20, 2020	RTAudience	90 _89%
Dec 13, 2020	sunno	8 _80%
Dec 12, 2020	mostafarso	100 _96%
Dec 11, 2020	obtiosov	100 _99%
Dec 01, 2020	erkanprens	88 _95%
Nov 26, 2020	kafka1325	60 _53%
Nov 21, 2020	Yondu4	90 _60%
Nov 20, 2020	mrci	50 _27%
Difficult to watch and analyze. Need to watch it again in the future.
Nov 07, 2020	kritikos	1 _8%
Nov 05, 2020	leap	1 _4%
Oct 31, 2020	perusegenes	95 _90%
Oct 21, 2020	istavritos	72 _45%
Oct 21, 2020	account2	59 _62%
Oct 16, 2020	erllunll	75 _65%
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Oct 08, 2020	daffodil907	81 _92%
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Jul 30, 2020	placestogo	75 _88%
74.7.
Jul 23, 2020	Eggeplante	80 _80%
Jul 21, 2020	Calexico	80 _67%
Meditative, hypnotic, and visually splendid, but a little monologue-heavy (particularly since I'm relying on subtitles).
Jul 21, 2020	Franquelot	91 _83%
Jul 17, 2020	michaelb89	85 _88%
Jul 13, 2020	danialinho	65 _60%
Jul 07, 2020	zehra	80 _65%
Jul 04, 2020	kappeuter	60 _34%
Jun 30, 2020	Hawkins	41 _10%
More like The Suckrifice
Jun 28, 2020	n2cfilm	70 _0%
Jun 25, 2020	IMDBbbbb	81 _68%
Jun 13, 2020	D Lightman	20 _0%
Jun 12, 2020	Memster81	83 _26%
Jun 11, 2020	erayyildiz	85 _85%
Jun 10, 2020	psim	68 _22%
I wish I could say that I loved this one, but it left me mostly baffled. It's not very easy to follow, even on a basic level of "who's who?", it is extremely slow-paced, and for a long stretch in the middle it feels like you are trapped in the nightmare of a person with dementia. Probably worth another shot at some point in the future.
Jun 07, 2020	Nepeta	75 _56%
It is gorgeous, with some extraordinary scenes and moments, and whilst I don’t find the concepts and ideas explored to have the depth they do in his earlier films I do have more respect for them having read other’s viewpoints on The Sacrifice and what it is trying to say. But for me it never truly coalesced, feeling almost like someone tried to make what they thought a Tarkovsky film is rather than the genuine experience. That human element is missing for me. That visceral connection is miss
Jun 07, 2020	TheShiznit	72 _96%
Jun 01, 2020	slatenf	83 _68%
Jun 01, 2020	Dreamer	75 _80%
May 27, 2020	Adam P-D	40 _38%
May 27, 2020	Risselada	82 _78%
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May 20, 2020	Omid Ranjbar	81 _97%
May 15, 2020	cascade	61 _39%
May 13, 2020	vesuvius	83 _86%
May 10, 2020	NathanBates	40 _5%
Like a Bunuel meditation on religion slowed to the glacial pace of a Bergman classic, here we have an hour-long masterclass on theatrical blocking before finally getting to a Faustian bargain. I understand the not-so-subtle allusions to spiritual people who were thought crazy, but I found it too difficult to reconcile the theme with what we see (and what is only hinted at) presented here.
May 04, 2020	selcukburcak	70 _35%
Apr 29, 2020	asdqwerftgyh	90 _75%
Apr 27, 2020	cagriozutok	90 _90%
Apr 25, 2020	Russ Bedford	75 _93%
Apr 25, 2020	frknerkn	90 _92%
Apr 25, 2020	mfjlefou	100 _99%
Apr 21, 2020	Frankyzerg	85 _74%
Apr 20, 2020	alexlma	9 _90%
Apr 20, 2020	jlafount	80 _97%
Apr 20, 2020	CiEmPank	56 _21%
Apr 19, 2020	BenDing14$	60 _76%
Apr 16, 2020	Reinalce	85 _91%
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Apr 08, 2020	sarahsm	86 _94%
Apr 01, 2020	tiagobdonoso	92 _77%
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Mar 30, 2020	Amita	90 _94%
Mar 27, 2020	spearmint	69 _68%
Mar 26, 2020	asliildir1	90 _82%
Mar 25, 2020	feublo	95 _97%
Towards the end of existence, a feverish dream becomes reality. The human spirit still lacks certainty, "what have I devoted to? Whom am I devoted to?" Here, it's a beautiful gesture burning it all down to rediscover his faith. Tarkovsky is letting his son know (and us) that in the end, we'll face these same questions of sacrifice and rediscover what our lives really mean to us.
Mar 19, 2020	BengisuY	85 _94%
Mar 19, 2020	biftek	80 _76%
Mar 16, 2020	navid.g	87 _87%
Mar 16, 2020	jam66539	80 _85%
Mar 07, 2020	ab_iiserk	92 _93%
Mar 01, 2020	paulofilmo	73 _85%
(of course, whothefuckami to rate tarkovsky's final film? it's a strange and mesmeric probing, and i suppose echoes/alludes to nietzsche's weird dreams, failings in love, and descent into madness)))))))
Mar 01, 2020	Fruk00	95 _82%
Feb 29, 2020	CMWL	1 _0%
Feb 26, 2020	Hyperion+	9 _99%
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Feb 16, 2020	roozbeh_13	80 _69%
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Feb 04, 2020	normatic	50 _19%
Jan 24, 2020	marco_n65	86 _98%
Jan 23, 2020	8505144	97 _93%
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Jan 02, 2020	colmener	90 _94%
Jan 02, 2020	Teproc	66 _65%
Dec 28, 2019	jpotII	89 _91%
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Dec 20, 2019	Shayan	60 _44%
Dec 19, 2019	OlivVerdys	75 _92%
Dec 16, 2019	ssavage	60 _25%
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Dec 13, 2019	CineLounge	75 _85%
Dec 12, 2019	spwnofstan	99 _99%
Dec 11, 2019	isa123	93 _15%
Nov 18, 2019	AlexSh25	80 _74%
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Oct 20, 2019	deob83	70 _75%
Oct 14, 2019	FrankXVI	70 _40%
Oct 05, 2019	Florin92	80 _88%
Sep 29, 2019	overrated	41 _32%
An unsuccessful Bergman homage. Continues the general allegory from Nostalghia with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
Sep 23, 2019	skotti85	80 _69%
Sep 03, 2019	f_ranzen	61 _47%
Aug 30, 2019	wintersunset	50 _14%
Aug 30, 2019	Esyuelo	90 _81%
Aug 29, 2019	oguzhnakkaya	84 _84%
Aug 27, 2019	laika	82 _82%
Aug 26, 2019	tcbyer33	24 _5%
Aug 20, 2019	hotsake	50 _34%
I'm starting to come to the conclusion that Tarkovsky films are not my thing as I find his films to be completely over rating in every way. The imagery is amazing at times and the idea behind the story is pretty interesting but the character are dull and boring, the pace is way to slow and the dialogue is laughably bad. Also why did this have to be 2.5 hours long? there's only 30 minutes of actual story.
Aug 19, 2019	prEja	80 _29%
Aug 14, 2019	Kadaise	88 _71%
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Jun 29, 2019	xombiemonkey	7 _56%
Jun 27, 2019	mbramhald13	100 _97%
Jun 10, 2019	peyrin	70 _55%
Religious discussions are a bit tough to get into but there's a lot of passages that strike me as very universal. As usual, the setpieces are nothing short of spectacular.
Jun 05, 2019	Nangijala	55 _42%
May 17, 2019	akintunc	90 _93%
May 08, 2019	mert2707	90 _96%
Apr 30, 2019	Shitbanger	100 _97%
Apr 29, 2019	Theodore Ab	75 _62%
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Apr 01, 2019	kaan26	78 _92%
Mar 22, 2019	DarrenCB	100 _97%
Mar 17, 2019	lucius	60 _54%
Mar 17, 2019	lillakniven	65 _65%
Mar 10, 2019	SpikyCactus	55 _12%
Top badass moment? A miserable old loser gets into the maid’s knickers, by telling her a sob story about ruining his mother’s garden. As a gardener myself, that’s a chat-up line I must try. The rest of the time he's like an annoying alcoholic in a pub, who randomly spouts boring and depressing philosophy to anyone who'll listen. Meanwhile, loud plane noises keep viewers awake, a dead tree is planted badly and a mosh pit develops on a zebra crossing. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.
Mar 02, 2019	elimpe	85 _94%
Feb 28, 2019	guneybirtek	95 _87%
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Feb 06, 2019	finchereznor	90 _90%
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Jan 05, 2019	ihatemovies1	100 _95%
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Dec 28, 2018	atlasakin	80 _39%
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Dec 23, 2018	knives	73 _51%
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Dec 01, 2018	Dennis Li	3 _61%
Nov 20, 2018	TheBreather	100 _97%
Nov 11, 2018	dead man	97 _99%
Nov 11, 2018	emreyuksel	80 _78%
Nov 08, 2018	rasseneur	93 _97%
Nov 05, 2018	KasperL	85 _93%
Tarkovsky and Nykvist's images and Josephson's acting are masterful, and the great Russian director's final film might just be his very best. The first 45 minutes of it is a thoroughly brilliant tribute to Ingmar Bergman's films. And then it gets weird ... so it will take some more viewings to extrapolate on what exactly the symbolic parts might mean.
Oct 28, 2018	Dressing	75 _90%
Oct 14, 2018	izefferino13	87 _54%
Oct 11, 2018	oplars	90 _84%
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Sep 07, 2018	omeremre	80 _87%
Sep 04, 2018	auhasarderik	5 _23%
How come fans of smart can get behind such awful and trite and manipulative writing? Sketchy. This is choke full with bold choices and stabs at profound issues, but there's no real intelligence behind them. So, there's cinematic interest in the camerawork, and a whole lot of tediousness and dialogue howlers.
Aug 30, 2018	LisaXiaolu	80 _71%
Aug 30, 2018	Calleia	100 _0%
Aug 28, 2018	ozdemirb	75 _54%
Aug 26, 2018	erkayama	90 _93%
Aug 23, 2018	Cinemicrobic	85 _80%
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Aug 07, 2018	filmbantha	80 _89%
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Jun 25, 2018	Mehmet Mert	72 _54%
Jun 24, 2018	Daisoujou	100 _97%
I don't believe "lesser" Tarkovsky exists, just films of his that resonate more or less with individuals.
Jun 15, 2018	jbwfilm	70 _37%
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