The Second Circle

The Second Circle

1990
Drama
1h 32m
A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality. (imdb)
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The Second Circle

1990
Drama
1h 32m
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Rated 06 Apr 2016
80
37th
Viewed April 4, 2016. An absolutely brutal film about a man planning his father's funeral. The images are haunted and sepulchral, brimming with the vestiges of decay and the complete desolation of grief.
Rated 23 Nov 2010
40
97th
"The Second Circle is awash in the pain of loss, yet how often grim comedy breaks through the austere surface." - Fernando F. Croce
Rated 26 Mar 2015
70
56th
A dream where we witness the main character trying yo reconcile with the image of his father as his "mother" scorns him and somehow teaches to be a man. The burning house is a Tarkovsky effect I guess :)
Rated 12 Sep 2020
83
73rd
O Segundo Circulo estreava há 30 anos no Festival de Toronto. É claro que a primeira coisa que vem à nossa mente ao ver esse filme é ele ser uma alegoria do fim da União Soviética, mas li por aí que ele também pode ser o luto pela morte do Tarkovski. Independente qual o sentido exato, o filme para me pé por si só como sentido do luto exato materialista, o que é palpável na nossa primeira apreensão da morte, da perda. DVDrip PirateBay.
Rated 19 Mar 2021
40
26th
A young man is confronted with the reality of what death means for the poor who try to subsist in a crumbling bureaucratic society. The Tarkovsky influence has never been clearer (dripping water, burning house, sepia tones, slow camera, sorrowful classical music near the end, etc.), but without ever approaching the master’s heights. The scene in which he fights the undertaker at least breaks things up a little, but plays somewhere between amateur theatrics and professional farce.

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