Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Come and See (1985)

This film will shake you up. It's as simple as that. One of the most harrowing of all WWII films, this angry and absurd tale of a young boy who runs off to join a ragtag army fighting the Nazis is a sensory assault. It starts off awkwardly, as if the director can't quite match the tone with the material, but about forty minutes in everything starts to click and the film pitches down into the depths of Hell. The long sequence near the end detailing a Nazi invasion of a small farming village is one of the most difficult things I've ever had to watch. An agonizing and overwhelming work of art (the last one its director ever made, which seems appropriate).

Grade: A-

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