Siberia

Name: Siberia
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Released: June 18, 2021
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 59
Cast: Anna Ferrara, Cristina Chiriac, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Dounia Sichov, Fabio Pagano

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Lionsgate | Release Date: June 18, 2021 | R

Starring: Anna Ferrara, Cristina Chiriac, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Dounia Sichov, Fabio Pagano, Laurent Arnatsiaq, Phil Neilson, Simon McBurney, Valentina Rozumenko, Willem Dafoe

Summary: A man flees from one world to another that is strange and cold. Furs and fires keep him warm; a cave serves as his shelter. He is a broken man who wants to be alone. But even isolation does not bring him inner peace. Once again, he goes on a journey, this time into the self. He explores his dreams, confronts memories and seeks out visions.A man flees from one world to another that is strange and cold. Furs and fires keep him warm; a cave serves as his shelter. He is a broken man who wants to be alone. But even isolation does not bring him inner peace. Once again, he goes on a journey, this time into the self. He explores his dreams, confronts memories and seeks out visions. The rare encounters with other people are in languages he does not speak, determined by bodies that fascinate him, and by types of love he explores and then loses. His journey becomes a dance with demons, but time and again it flares up: light. … Expand

Director: Abel Ferrara

Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 92 min

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The Film Stage Logan Kenny

Oct 15, 2020

It is a work that is impossible to forget, impossible to stop thinking about, and is one of the most genuine portraits of isolation and depression in recent film history. After all, sometimes we’ve all felt like there’s nothing left but darkness. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Sep 23, 2021

The film’s freakiness and wooziness might have been a bit grating were it not for the glacial authority that Ferrara brings to every scene and shot – centred, of course, in the craggy gravitas of Dafoe himself. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Feb 29, 2020

Abel Ferrara doesn’t require traditional dream logic, as his grasp of the nitty-gritty quotidian of longing is inherently uncanny. Read full review

Deborah Young

Feb 28, 2020

In the end, there is a method in all this madness, suggested by Dafoe’s calm face and reassuring voice as Clint confronts his most emotionally charged memories with courage and curiosity. Read full review

The Telegraph Tim Robey

Feb 28, 2020

An unfashionably male art film of Nietzsche-quoting, Tarkovsky-adjacent bent that’s ghoulish, baffling and rather brave. Read full review

The Playlist Jack King

Feb 28, 2020

Siberia juggles a number of intriguing ideas without any real success at marrying them. It’s an enjoyable watch, if only for the confident surrealism, albeit one which could inspire confusion and/or disgust in many film fans. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sergio Mims

Jun 18, 2021

Co-written by Ferrara and Christ Zois, who also wrote the Ferrara films Welcome to New York, The Blackout and New Rose Hotel, this picture can be described best as minimalist pretentiousness, a lot of angst and suffering with no particular place to go. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Sep 16, 2021

Abel Ferrara gets stuck and delivers a film that clearly dreams of high terrains, but the depth it thinks it has simply doesn't exist, and ends up as a very disappointing installment.

Dafoe as always, is present and doing his job quite well, although it seems to me that he made this film toAbel Ferrara gets stuck and delivers a film that clearly dreams of high terrains, but the depth it thinks it has simply doesn't exist, and ends up as a very disappointing installment.

Dafoe as always, is present and doing his job quite well, although it seems to me that he made this film to continue working with Ferrara after the decent Tommaso, but there's no depth to his character or real substance that allows him to do more, than the bare minimum.
It's a waste of his talent of course, but that's something usual for Dafoe.

Siberia never promised me anything, nor did I create any unusual expectations for it, but I can't deny that, considering the people involved, I'm very disappointed.… Expand

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