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Though occasionally almost too austere for its own good, and bleak as hell, First Reformed is a carefully composed and constructed film that should probably be seen more than once, with cinematic rewards aplenty for those open to the Word of Schrader.

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Indeed, time and memory are the ultimate subjects of most of his work, which is why, after Ivan's Childhood, we so often find long-duration takes at key points of the narrative, conflating reel and real time.

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Writer/director Clément Cogitoire, for whom this is the first feature, has crafted a tale of unraveling where the sacrifice of moral superiority

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Aesthetically assured and emotionally true, First Winter is ambitious by means of its limited resources, rather than in spite of them.

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Tarkovsky was always dealing with the fragile nature of human life and our connection to our own history; The Sacrifice lands squarely within the poetic realm of his deepest concerns.

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