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| | The Return (Movie) |
 | | In The Return, a first feature by Andrey Zvyagintsev, a father who abandoned his wife and two young boys a dozen years ago mysteriously reappears and takes his sons on a fishing trip that quickly turns into a test of wills. |
 | | Vanya (Ivan Dobronravov), now 12, is deeply mistrustful of his emotionally distant father (Konstantin Lavronenko), while his older brother, Andrey (Vladimir Garin), tries to win the father’s favor, causing a rift between the siblings. |
 | | It’s possible to read into it all kinds of allegorical meanings—the prodigal father, for example, could be the reemergence of what, in all its strangeness, had once been suppressed under communism—but it also does very well as a study of riven male lineage. |
| www.newyorkmetro.com /movies/articles/04/02/thereturn.htm (284 words) |
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