100 Days Before the Command (1991)

I watched the film with my DVD player on double and sometimes quadruple speed and I don't think i missed a thing.Since when does the army(of any country)take the time to have each soldier laboriously sponge bath one another?

A companion film to Come and See and The Guard, 100 Days Before The Command offers a very different rhythm and style to the war training film. Where films like Full Meal Jacket and Jarhead present the behavioural disintegration of their subjects, this film offers a more subconscious vision of where the personality goes when fragmented by the rigours of a depersonalising military command.

At first sight, comparisons with Tarkovsky and Sokurov are inevitable. However, although this film is visually striking and very atmospheric, it seems to lack balance between the cinematographic and the narrative parts.