The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 30

Page 30A The Kansas City Star Sunday November 8 1987 Weekend reviews fails to warm the heart and simply a masterpiece By Robert Trussell arts and entertainment writer How It Rate Come and See a war drama contains graphic violence and sexually suggestive scenes (No MPAA rating) 142 minutes Showing Monday at the Tivoli Written and directed by Elem Klimov and starring Alexei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova Rare is the film that successfully blends intoxicating visual images with unrelentingly grim material but Russian director Elem phenomenal and is such a movie By Robert Butler The arts and entertainment editor How It Rates Vh Russkies a comedy ad venture contains profanity (Audience raUng: PC) 93 minutes Now showing at the Blue Springs Bannister Square Blue Ridge East Seville Olathe Landing Oak Park Plaza Metro North Mall and Springs North theaters Produced by Mark Levinson and Scott Rosenfelt written by Alan Jay Glueckman Sheldon Lettich and Michael Nankin directed by Rick Rosenthal and released by New Century Entertainment with the following principal players: Whip Hubley Leaf Phoenix Peter Billingsley Stefan DeSalle is a Kiddie Corps remake of Russians Are Coming the Russians Are that wants badly to be heartwarming but is mostly irritating The plot is in the Reagan era Thus their1 first impulse upon stumbling upon the luckless Soviet sea-man is to blow his head off It goes without saying that as the film progresses they come to admire and even love the handsome young chap The message may be an honorable that the jingoists have been poisoning the well for too but the methods of director Rick Rosenthal and his three screenwriters could use some refining is as lead-fisted in its own unsubtle way as the "Missing In series The dialogue is either banal or overcooked speechifying the characters gauze-thin and the performances merely adequate Parents also should be advised that a lot of profanity a rip-off of the a shipwrecked Soviet seaman (Whip Hubley) is stranded on American soil and befriended by American youths (Leaf Phoenix Peter Billingsley and Stefan DeSalle) while the grown-ups attempt to prepare for what they are sure is a Russian invasion But Russians Are was a flat-out comedy with serious overtones wants most of all to be taken seriously and its humorous elements are just an afterthought Instead of the naive kids of that earlier movie (can really be 20 years old?) these adolescents of Key West Fla are Rambo-wise militarists reared on Chuck Norris and the simplistic world view that passes for diplomacy Eventually Florya still on the run from the Nazis is given protection by the people of a nearby village which the Germans have made a target for destruction There is never a moment in which Klimov and his cinematographer Alexei Rodionov lack total control Visually the film exhibits an astonishing technical virtuosity as Klimov and Rodionov repeatedly find new ways to move the camera- Similarly Klimov toys with the soundtrack to achieve the desired effect At times the dialogue is electronically distorted and sound effects are enhanced or subdued depending on the needs of the moment The result is a film that taps the emotions in unexpected and unforgettable ways and which will be shown only on Monday as part of the to Soviet film festival at the Tivoli in Westport is simply a the cruelty of war and a beautifully realized work of art In its hallucinogenic depiction of warfare and its human cost and towers above Francis "Apocalypse Now" and Oliver As in novelist Jerzy The Painted Bird the film traces the heartbreaking journey of an innocent who is transfigured by his repeated exposure to the atrocities and mindless cruelties of war The protagonist is Flo-rya played with uncommon emotional depth by young Alexei Kravchenko who defies his wishes and joins the partisans to fight the Nazi invaders He is introduced to the military rigors of camp life meets a dreamy young girl named Glasha (Olga Mironova) is separated from his military unit during a deafening bombardment and returns to his farm with Glasha there discovering that his family has been massacred pretty much terrifying 1985 epic about the pyschological journey of an adolescent caught up in the fierce warfare between Russian partisans and contingents of the German army in 1943 is an ambitious film that comes as close to perfection as any movie likely to see Klimov has provided a hard-hitting indictment of Store Hours: 7:30 to 6:00 Sunday 9:00 to 5:00 Cash Carry Prices Good thru Saturday Subject to stock on hand and we reserve the right to limit quantities ioke Detector He' BOOSTER CABLE BAG WITH SAFE JUMP-S1ABT INSTRUCTIONS HOOVER Convertible Upright Cleaners Deep Cleans Carpeting! 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