Francofonia's reviews
Media reviews
El País
The film proposes a fragmentary discourse, where traditional tones and heterogeneous materials around an enigma (...) The film has no answers, but formula, provocatively, the essential questions.
Clarin
Tremendous parable that traces Sokurov, using these two men who protected the heritage, the culture of the Louvre, while Nazism swept with European civilization.
El Mundo
The film wants to be a reflection on the meaning of art (...) The film is an exercise in film hardly questionable wisdom.
Chicago Sun-Times
As Sokurov examines a pivotal point in the Louvre?s history and gives us a virtual tour of the magnificent museum, he makes larger points about the vital importance of art throughout human history. This is one of the most beautiful films of the year.
Cinemanía
A waste of wealth and philosophical depth, and a feast for the eyes.
Fotogramas
Sokurov is beautiful to keep thinking about that impossible friendship as if it were the only hope left us to survive in this dark Titanic called West.
The Guardian
Francofonia is a fascinating essay and meditation on art, history and humanity?s idea of itself.
Screen Daily
Aleksandr Sokurov?s Francofonia is rich, complex, challenging.
The Telegraph
The mood?s often as fun as it is funereal, and though the film occasionally feels clever in a way that isn?t necessarily a compliment, Sokurov?s ideas have a philosophical depth and richness that are found almost nowhere else in cinema.
ABC
It's, then, an essay, the fugitive form of post-contemporary cinema, a government headed by Sokurov own voice whispering his thoughts on the art of portrait essay, compared museology and other issues.