The Stranger

A friend of mine, a Russian Jew, is of the opinion that a stream of nationalism runs through the center of Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark (2002), and that nationalism always ends in a state of war, a sea of blood. Alexandra, Sokurov's latest film, comes into war by a nationalist stream—a proud babushka visiting her grandson, a soldier, at his camp in Chechnya—for the purpose of finding a way out of the blood and destruction. The way out is humanistic rather than nationalistic. The film is fucking great. (See movie times, www.thestranger.com, for details.) by Charles Mudede

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