Aleksandr Sokurov's "Aleksandra" depicts an elderly woman visiting her grandson on a military base in Chechnya. We don't see where the title character comes from, but we get a feeling of how this is a new world to her. In that sense, one might interpret the movie as a look at how our tendency to stay in comfort zones blinds us to the rest of the world.
"Aleksandra" is one of those deliberately slow-moving films; it takes time to get to know the characters. The cast is not anyone likely to be recognizable to non-Russian audiences, but that doesn't matter. The point is that this movie is not a political statement about the situation in Chechnya, it's merely a look at this one woman's exposure to this new world within her own country. Not a masterpiece, but I found it to be a good movie. Intense, but worth seeing.
"Aleksandra" is one of those deliberately slow-moving films; it takes time to get to know the characters. The cast is not anyone likely to be recognizable to non-Russian audiences, but that doesn't matter. The point is that this movie is not a political statement about the situation in Chechnya, it's merely a look at this one woman's exposure to this new world within her own country. Not a masterpiece, but I found it to be a good movie. Intense, but worth seeing.