Lyrical… Ambitious… The film is stunning.
TIME OUT

A film to die to…The brilliance of Mother and Son is how it turns perspective and perception against us….The film is a painting in perpetual motion, an intimate tale of a death foretold that, with Sokurov as mediator and cinema as sanctifier, effectively fosters its own resurrection
SLANT

73 heart-aching, luminescent minutes of pure cinema. Sokurov is a master… [his] films define a new form of spiritual cinema
PAUL SCHRADER

To perhaps the deepest and most complex of human relationships, the Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Sokurov brings the eye of a masterly painter and the sensitivity of a poet….he creates an understandable yearning to know more of these people. For all the universality of the relationship he depicts, for all the universality of death and loss, this mother and this son are singular…In the midst of death, Mr. Sokurov glories in life
THE NEW YORK TIMES