SummaryA man flees from one world to another that is strange and cold. Furs and fires keep him warm; a cave serves as his shelter. He is a broken man who wants to be alone. But even isolation does not bring him inner peace. Once again, he goes on a journey, this time into the self. He explores his dreams, confronts memories and seeks out visions. The ra... Read More
Directed By:Abel Ferrara
Written By:Abel Ferrara, Christ Zois
Siberia
Metascore
Mixed or Average
59
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Generally Unfavorable
3.8
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
50% Positive
7 Reviews
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43% Mixed
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7% Negative
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1 Review
Oct 15, 2020
91
It is a work that is impossible to forget, impossible to stop thinking about, and is one of the most genuine portraits of isolation and depression in recent film history. After all, sometimes we’ve all felt like there’s nothing left but darkness.
Feb 29, 2020
75
Abel Ferrara doesn’t require traditional dream logic, as his grasp of the nitty-gritty quotidian of longing is inherently uncanny.
Feb 28, 2020
70
As a study of a rugged individualist looking back on long-withered connections — to others, to the mainstream world, and indeed to himself — it feels personally invested both as a star vehicle and an auteur piece. If it isn’t, the joke’s on us, and still pretty funny.
Feb 28, 2020
60
An unfashionably male art film of Nietzsche-quoting, Tarkovsky-adjacent bent that’s ghoulish, baffling and rather brave.
Feb 28, 2020
58
Siberia juggles a number of intriguing ideas without any real success at marrying them. It’s an enjoyable watch, if only for the confident surrealism, albeit one which could inspire confusion and/or disgust in many film fans.
Feb 28, 2020
42
For all of Ferrara’s reckless abandon — and Dafoe’s unimpeachable commitment to artistic exploration — Siberia becomes increasingly unable to instigate our own journeys of the soul; seldom has the collective unconscious felt so inaccessible.
Jun 18, 2021
38
Co-written by Ferrara and Christ Zois, who also wrote the Ferrara films Welcome to New York, The Blackout and New Rose Hotel, this picture can be described best as minimalist pretentiousness, a lot of angst and suffering with no particular place to go.
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Sep 16, 2021
4
Abel Ferrara gets stuck and delivers a film that clearly dreams of high terrains, but the depth it thinks it has simply doesn't exist, and ends up as a very disappointing installment. Dafoe as always, is present and doing his job quite well, although it seems to me that he made this film to continue working with Ferrara after the decent Tommaso, but there's no depth to his character or real substance that allows him to do more, than the bare minimum.
It's a waste of his talent of course, but that's something usual for Dafoe. Siberia never promised me anything, nor did I create any unusual expectations for it, but I can't deny that, considering the people involved, I'm very disappointed.
Production Company:
- Vivo Film
- Rai Cinema
- Maze Pictures
- Piano
- Faliro House Productions
- Rimsky Productions
- Talipot Studio
- CTT
- Bavaria Filmproduktion
- Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MiBACT)
- Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF)
- IDM Südtirol - Alto Adige Film Fund
- FilmFernsehFonds Bayern
- Regione Lazio
- Eficine
Release Date:Jun 18, 2021
Duration:1 h 32 m
Rating:R
Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Seville European Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Montréal Festival of New Cinema
• 1 Nomination
