Notes

Mother and Son is an one-of-a-kind experience that you will never have again; Sokurov’s film is a masterpiece, a visual and auditory masterpiece that resembles more an oil painting than a modern movie.

I’ve read reviews where people call Mother and Son hypnotic, moving, powerful, beautiful, dreadful, but that doesn’t encompass everything that can be said about it: it’s a tremendously moving piece of art. And while the comparison with Tarkovsky has a leg to stand on, it’s more Dreyer than Tarkovsky.

It seems like people live just like that. But they die for some specific reason.
What reason do I have?
None. You have no reason. There is no reason. Be alive and enjoy yourself.