There is an old joke about a pious man stranded on a desert island. As he prays for divine deliverance, a ship arrives, but he sends it away, saying, “God will save me.” Ditto a helicop…
’s somber, scabrous third film, in which a rural community refuses to accept a God who moves in anything but the most mysterious ways.
Above ground, the images are reminiscent of Bela Tarr or the particularly dolorous stretches of early Tarkovsky movies, an impression accented by the strange siren-like blares, twangs and choral interludes of Tako Zhordania’s otherwordly score. Underground, the images are even more stark, recalling the more apocalyptically nightmarish passages of David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: The Return.
But the wonder he evokes, answering prayers left and right — one whisperish, hallucinatory sequence sees him reunite Berdo with his son and the other lost miners — quickly gives way to an infectious paranoia amongst a population all too aware that over the years they have confessed all their darkest secrets to the statue. The saint becomes a kind of timebomb walking among them, and so the move towards tragedy and self-defeat scarcely comes as a surprise.
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