In MY DEAR THEO filmmaker and soldier Alisa Kovalenko composes audio and video messages to her young son who was moved to France after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Low key, it was intentionally filmed in quiet moments and
references the fighting only after the fact, the film is a look at the silences
and waiting in warfare. As such it is a powerful look at the emotional times
when we search our souls and ponder if we are going to be alive in the next few
minutes.
This is a slow building film. It is one that you really
should not watch it at home or on your phone. This is a film that truly flowers
and hits hardest on a big screen, in a darkened theater where there are no
distractions. You need to feel the pace of the times between battles. We need
to feel the silences and the quiet. By being in the quiet we get to travel the parallel
path of a soldier. Not the one of blood and guts and steel and iron, but heart
and home and human and humanity. It’s a film that really explains why they are
fighting, to protect the ones, like Theo that they hold dear to their hearts.
It took me a few minutes, but once I connected, I found I
was deeply moved. This is a film that
reminds us that things are not always as they seem on TV or in the news.
Recommended.
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