Enticing, Sugary, Boundless or Songs and Dances About Death (2017) User Reviews

Thoughts about the film

[OlhaHorban · 9/10 · 28 March 2020]

Something live and non-artificial. The film helps for a moment to catch the taste of life, as impermanent and vulnerable as a leaf in the wind.

The important work for the upcoming Ukrainian cinema

[egorsor · 10/10 · 31 July 2021]

This is the new generation of the Ukrainian cinema language that contains all of our ideas, feelings and other elements of a human being.

A beautiful, heartfelt film

[gfmnsscd · 10/10 · 10 March 2023]

So many unforgettable moments in this film: a mother who must worry about her children being eaten by wolves on their way to school; Lelo Burti (I'm researching it now): a combination of rugby, wrestling, insane (to me), extreme example of "masculinity," (as if we needed any more), like the running of the bulls in Pamplona; The Georgian singing at the table-Oh My God!-I have long loved that tradition; it reminds me very much of the Bulgarian women's chorus tradition; the combination of sad, tragic, fatalistic lyrics with otherworldly beautiful music (not unlike the great requiem masses of Mozart, Brahms, Verdi); the 74-year-old Ukrainian man and his son in that desolate, isolated but stunning beautiful, austere landscape of snow and wind; the monologue by the ballet dancer about isolating moments in time for intense focus and concentration and seeing the details and beauty and magic everywhere around us; in Brooklyn-the young woman singing that gorgeous song so beautifully, sigh...; the heart-breaking loss of the Director Of Photography working on a film about death and our feelings about it; the strawberries-of course, it evokes for me memories of seeing "Wild Strawberries" when I was 20 years old; also, like the ballet dancer said, seeing the stunning beauty of the most common things which surround us; the two Ukrainian boys talking so matter-of-factly about death; the beautiful book of sketches by Tonio and stories and obvious love those close to him felt; the Georgian bus in that middle-of-nowhere landscape with the middle-of-nowhere bus stop; the DOP's wife beautiful words about her painting; and her daughter's saying that, if her dad were alive, the thing she would most like to do is "go for ice cream" with him; I could go on-and-on...

Very true, sharp and sincere

[melonflavor · 10/10 · 17 September 2021]

Hard topic, which is easy to become vulgar and over-pathetic while telling this story to the audience, but performed in such an accurate and gentle way - you just feel grateful for the feelings you're left with after watching this movie.

the big world and a small person

[tatiachi · 10/10 · 25 March 2023]

Its an unbelievable film which connect the stories of different part of the world (Italy, Georgia, Ukraine) in unified plot of life and death, and happiness, and at the same time the loss and the hope for life. The story of a provincial village Georgian old man echoes the story of the great Italian director Tonino Guerro and his wife. It's like the bible says: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. The film deals with the existential problem of time and living, the passage of time through a person and the reflection of a great and ordinary person. And I'd like to give some additional words according the way of the style of filming, the beauty and relevance of each frame. This is a story that draws, organizes chaos and gives the hope for the life and beauty of the world.