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In his attempt to film dreams, Abel Ferrara shows a nightmare. Although the images of Willem Dafoe in a remote and frozen place visited by characters he doesn't understand, are mysterious, the hallucinatory journey becomes confusing. Based on the active imagination that Carl Jung showed in "The red book," this representation of the dream world feels scattered and somehow more ordinary than it would have us believe.

And appropriately I fell asleep halfway through. I did wake up eventually and watch it all but only with a few cups of coffee to keep me going. I usually love Ferrara and thought I could watch Dafoe in anything. This tested that theory to destruction. Oh there are some excellent scenes but on the whole it's just so soporific. Maybe it's all that snow..............................

Love to have been at the meeting where Ferrara pitched this film and someone told him 'Go make it.' I love to say something about 'Siberia's' story but there isn't one. Well acted and I'd love to give it props for production but as far as I can tell it's just a lot of weirdness posing as something profound.

Where to start this movie is totally nonsense just random scenes in random places with random dialogues all together leads to noweher ,and you will ask yourself what was the point of all this ..why did i waste time for a movie that has no begining and no end and nothing in between ? some say it's symbolic but of what exactly ? a dream ? sorry but my dreams makes more sense . the only attraction this movie used is the famouse willem dafoe sex scenes and plenty of nude women that is all in there nothing more . very empty movie that is just waste of time .

I just watched it at Berlinale festival and liked it. Many people left the theatre during the film. For example when they saw a naked person or something they might not understand. Sure, it's not a Larry wants Harry to meet Barry film. I watched such horrible films. The last days. And this one was beautifully shot. People are not able anymore to just watch and try to understand. They need it all clear and dull. And as soon they see a naked woman they call it sexist, even when it's intention is the complete opposite. It's a philosophical film about life and relationships and also about the human nature and nature itself within its powers way beyond ours. It's episodically filmed with many layers. I'm so saddened about what I experienced around me in the cinema. Ferrara was always edgy and thank god he is. That's art. That's freedom of art. Unpleasant. My favorite film of the Berlinale so far.

I am not going to say much About this film. Because there simply isnt much to say exccept for Willem Dafoe Walking through Scenes that makes no sense. Yes I understand its all symbolic, but this can be done SO much better, also technically. Its one of the worst films I have EVER seen on the Berlinale. A real shame for Willem Dafoe who I love dearly. Abel Ferrera really went to far with it. The only redeeming Quality are the fantastic nature shots and cinematography in General. Everything else is just really downright useless, forgetable and boring.

Siberia is art, in photography, in directing. People expect to watch a fiilm of good drama told by a mainstream artist. Those ones don't know Ferrara's universe. It's plenty poetry in it!

If you love Bela Tarr's movies or Tarkovskis, or LYNCH's you should watch that. Really powerful and intense poetic, don't try to find a plot, don't go and sit in front of it like you are watching a peaceful drama, because it is not. It is poetry, it has some stunning visuals, sound, OST, Willem Dafoe is allways a tremendous actor.

Run to watch it and you decide if you like it or not. But if you are finding a, plot and a "normal" Movie, avoid it.

Only for those ones who want to go more away than cinema can't (metafisic cinema). Really a cinematic experience, more in the way of MALICK. Really engagging to senses.

7 Stars out of 10.

Well, I'm not the dumbest chicken sitting in the middle of the road, but I'm not sure what I watched. Is our main character hallucinating from the isolation? Is he dead & somehow we're reliving his past (or maybe he is reliving his past & we're observers). Did this bar in the middle of nowhere burn down? If so, what happened?

If my mind needs exercise there are far more productive ways to accomplish that.

Nice scenery.

A strange film that explores the mental landscape of a man struggling with his devastating memories. The filmmaking is of variable interest and boredom points its nose a little too often. Abel Ferrara has a lot of energy and inspiration but does not provide great intensity or great precision of filming here to make up for the lack of a real narration. The camera moves at times in a rather crude way. Dazzling beauties are scattered throughout the film. For example, a very good editing point where Clint (Willem Dafoe) perhaps sees himself entering a room. Madness lurks. You have to take it as a particular trip, not as a very mastered work, and then it becomes an interesting experience beyond the flaws.

If my dreams would be that boring, I would simply stay awake till I get some real trippy stuff going on in my mind. Verdict: pseudo-artsy-intellectual movie that achieved mainly one emotion in my soul: boredom by torture (if this of course was/is the aim of writer and director, they did well). Some introspective scenes including some nudity and violence don't make something good by itself, and even Mr. Dafoe's acting skills could not save this movie for me - and I really like some of his more experimental and trippy movies like The Lighthouse (2019, also directed by Abel Ferrara) or Antichrist (2009, Lars von Trier).

Abel Ferrara is not a director who makes movies that are easy. I had my issues with movies of his. They are not easy, some will call them art, others boring and/or annoying. Some will call them other things (this has quite a lot of nudity for example). One thing is for sure, this is not aiming to be easy to digest or just plain entertainment.

If you are aware of that and the fact that the movie goes back and forth, not just timeline wise, but also in the mind of the protagonist (hard to explain, but you'll get it). The movie also tries out many things - it is about aging outside while remaining young inside. It is about what we think is real and what actually is. There are many different layers to this and the movie is also about isolation.

So while I'm sure that more will dislike the movie (which is already apparent in the voting/rating) and how I rated it, if you watch this open minded and actualy watch it again - you'll discover a lot of things. I'm sure there is even more there than I did catch.

I saw Siberia at the Berlinale (Berlin Film Festival) and man, let me put it like this - it definately was an experience. Dafoe once again does a great job and there are some beautiful shots of the landscape but what striked me the most was Ferrara's symbolism. Tho it's not at the level of Jodorowsky it leaves enough space for interpretation which makes this movie great to talk about afterwards. Personally I liked the second half of the movie better, maybe because it took some time to establish the mood or maybe it is because there barely are any dialogues in the first 20 minutes. I liked the film, it was an interesting (tho at times disturbing) watch. And yeah, the fish kills it.

Sorry, but it started like watching paint dry. Then it jumped about to different scenes all the time and no explanation of what was going on. If you can't sleep at night, then watch this and you will soon drift off...

This film has no story. It is just a collection of scenes which are sexual, twisted or bloody. I find it quite a torture to watch.

And so are stretches of the cinematography.

But that's not enough to drag out to 90 mintes.

Utter, incoherent, flamboyantly-self-important hogwash. Dear, dear Mr Dafoe needs to learn to say "No" sometimes.

Also: there is a comment here somewhere which credits the truly magnificent, thinking man's horror movie "The Lighthouse" to the egregiously overrated Abel Ferrara.

Nope! "The Lighthouse" was directed by Robert Eggers.

William Dafoe plays a man battling his demons of his parents and his past in a dreamy dark surrealism film. It's like a visual dark poetry where you don't take what's on the screen literally, but you try to interpret them. Much like you might interpret a nightmare to understand what it means.

This dream world is fascinating and disturbing. Just don't try to make literal understanding of it. It's an artsy fantasy-horror film.

The problem that I had with the film was the foreign language scenes that had no subtitles. I wanted to know what Dafoe, the indigenous man, and the Russian women were saying at his bar. I could not find subs for those non-english speaking parts so I felt I missed much of those scenes. Some of it you can infer by what happens on the screen, but I would have liked to understand the conversation.

Anyway, if artsy fantasy-horror films isn't your forte then this film might not be for you. But I do like these imaginary sublime worlds captured on film and go with it.

I have an appreciation for high creativity. It seems William Dafoe like making these kinds of films too.

Dafoe delivers another great performance, but despite some striking visuals this one is either complete weirdness for weirdness' sake or perhaps things will hit the viewer after some serious contemplation. The 90 minute running time seems twice as long. Was great to get back into the theater just wish this film wasn't soooo slooowwwww.

I think Ferrara was trying to channel Jodorowsky here.

I am utterly tired of the hordes of mindless drones constantly spewing the same hermetic cliched phrase over and over and over again... Its too artsy, its too artsy, its too artsy. Well guess what buddy? Its called the seventh art! Calling it too artsy is like calling an orange to orangy. You want brainless entertainment that doesn't challenge the mind in any way? Go to Six Flags and ride a roller-coaster pudding brain! Try opening your mind up to different and/or new things a little. You might actually learn to enjoy it without having to watch billions of dollars being thrown at a screen just to see the same recipes recycled over and over again. So this movie is metaphorical. If that bothers you, just turn around and go away. There's no point in trying to denigrate something just because it isn't within your grasp. As for the movie, did I like it? Not that much but it did make me think and reflect which I always appreciate from a movie and I admire those who dare to trie something different and more personal regardless of all the cowardly trolls hiding behind their smartphones and computers this new era rains down on everyone. The movie was spectacularly photographed and yes, it was weird. And if weird was bad. Then everyone would be in big trouble because guess what else? Unless you aren't human, YOU ARE WEIRD! So I'm giving this a 10 to counter all the undeserving negative reviews from the basements wannabe critics which, even dough I also am. I am at least decent enough to be aware of it and trie to have some humility when judging other people's art. But I'm not above judging those who judges. And I like art which is why I like that there are movies like this and I wish to encourage that.

Another personal film from Abel Ferrara, looking back at his past with real life wife and son in the film playing some characters--here as a Russian girl and his son, respectively (as in his earlier "Tommaso".) Siberia is a meta-film with hallucinations that resemble a horror film (which it definitely is not) with 5 huskies pulling his sled in snow in one sequence and accompanying him to a hot Sahelian desert oasis in another. Clint (Willem Dafoe) is once again Ferrara's alter ego searching for philosophical answers to his own life thus far from his family and practitioners of the "dark arts." The answer he gets from one of them is that he lacks compassion, and that he should forego reason. A fish that he ate to the bone the previous night outside his burnt abode in the snow becomes alive the next morning in the same pan. Ferrara seems to accept a larger force that defies reason. One of his best films so far for me.

Don't expect to get a plot or some message out ot this movie (unless your some sort of pure artistic academic from the planet Zoltar). Yes there were some interesting visuals, lighting and camera work. I found that if I randomly paused the movie you could get interesting stills ala Helmut Neuman, Jeryy Ullman, heck maybe even Maplethorpe. My recommendation if you opt to watch bazzarro film, do so while your working on someother task (writing memo, making a craft, cliping you toenails, etc.). You may get to enjoy a scene or two, a still visual or a nudey without getting board or frustrated due to lack of plot or storyline.