Vostochnaya elegiya

Typically atmospheric and dense offering from Sokurov that transforms a sleepy Japanese fishing village into a kind of phantasmagorical setting that functions as a liminal space between life and death. Sokurov's moody meditations are an acquired taste, and his tendency towards mannerism is occasionally bothersome, but these blurry spectral images have a singular power that cannot possibly be confused for the work of other directors. The downside is that it's too short for its own good.

Weird, ethereal, dreamlike