Title: The Letter and the Spirit of Dostoevsky
Product review: This film mesmerized me with its eerie sound effects and intense performances. A film Russian in its elemental humanity, German in its expressionist mis-en-scene. It's loud, even when it whispers. That the film itself haunts seems appropriate given that it is a ghost-story of sorts. If you're just looking for entertainment, look elsewhere. This is a film about ultimate questions.The transfer looks okay on analogue television, but on my laptop it lacks definition, as if it were transfered from a second-rate VHS tape. Wish the folks at Criterion would get their hands on this one. I would not hesitate to upgrade.If you like stately and intensely reflective films about the interior of the soul, by all means RENT this.
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