Come and See (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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The only other release of Come and See that I have in my library is this two-disc DVD set from Nouveaux Pictures, which for a long period of time offered the best technical presentation of the film. Booklet - 30-page illustrated booklet featuring "Orphans of the Storm" by Mark Le Fanu; "Read and See: Ales Adamovish and Literature Out of Fire" by Valzhyna Mort; and technical credits. Even Salo: 120 Days of Sodom covered the nazi regime in Italy and most recently, Taika Waititi took an impressive approach with Jojo Rabbit. It will come as a surprise to no one, at least those who pointed out how several shots from Come and See appeared as if they were lifted wholesale for 1917, to hear cinematographer Roger Deakins in a new interview included with this release discuss the influence of the film’s hyper-realistic look on his own work. In a terrifying image, Flyora suddenly realizes his family and neighbors escaped the Nazi attack, but as the two teens run to safety, Glasha looks over her shoulder to reveal dozens of dead bodies behind Flyora's home.

We experience the German invasion of Belarus through Flyora (Aleksey Kravchenko), a teenager who joins the local partisan militia after discovering a rifle buried in the sand. The color grading job is quite similar to the one from the DVD release, only with much more improved and better balanced primaries and nuances. Addition: Interestingly, I learned through members of our forum that the film was released with a 3. Glascha (Olga Mironova), a lovely young girl, befriends him, but the two are caught in the midst of an air raid which leaves Florya nearly deaf.

The film’s sound design and mix are both remarkably elaborate and it seems to get more intense as the film progresses. The detail is quite vivid throughout, revealing all the nasty, horrors of bullet wounds, burnt flesh, and exploded bodies. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). The Criterion Collection presents Elem Klimov’s Come and See on Blu-ray in its original aspect ratio of 1. Without betraying the real—by, in fact, remaining more faithful to it than most fictional remembrances of WWI have been— Come and See suggests that the war’s horrors were the ultimate unassimilable experience of the shadowy depths of the human mind.

What makes it special and different from every other war film is the stunning visualization of the mental horror that overwhelms Flyora and many of the people around him. This new digital transfer was created in 2K resolution from the 35mm original camera negative at Mosfilm. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. In archival interviews from 2001, Elem Klimov, actor Alexei Kravchenko, and production designer Viktor Petrov discuss the grueling experience of making the film.Once Flyora is with the Belorussian resistance, he is only allowed to do menial tasks which is where he meets a young girl named Glasha, working as a nurse. The sound design gets elaborate in other ways, like muffling out certain sounds at times while enhancing others, and it never comes off screeching or weak. Legendary Cinematographer Roger Deakins talks about the look of Come and See and how the filmmakers used the cameras. Europe's busiest forums, with independent news and expert reviews, for TVs, Home Cinema, Hi-Fi, Movies, Gaming, Tech and more. Flyora's heartbroken mother, who has to take care of his younger twin sisters, begs him not to abandon her, but he unceremoniously rejects her plea and then heads to the nearby forest where the partisans have built a large camp.

To be clear, there are some absolutely unforgettable visuals, like the mass burning of the villagers, and they look very authentic). This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war.

But with this one, she also talks about how she got her life back together after the war, showing how one can still work to move on.