Sokurov's Dni zatmeniia if full of ambiguous images. What sort of film is it .

Aleksandr Sokurov, Russia's foremost contemporary director, on the web.

Nick Cave reviews the film Mother and Son by Aleksandr Sokurov.

I have left for last the most powerful alienating effect on nature, Sokurov's use of special distorting lenses and mirrors that give the image an oblique, quivering feel. It is a unique form of distortion, one that has had many viewers baffled. When ...