‘Come And See’ Is A War Movie Like No Other
Episode 150
With the restoration and re-release of Elem Klimov‘s underappreciated war epic “Come and See,” we steel ourselves to revisit the film’s famously immersive, brutal, even dangerous portrayal of the WWII Eastern Front. (A child actor’s hair literally turned white.) Listen as we dive back into the Russian film’s production history, myth, canonization, and assess the lines between majesty and gratuitousness.
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Be Reel is a movie reviewing & reappraising podcast hosted by Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Noah Ballard.
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