Siberia

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.

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.

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.

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.