'Come and See' is a late Soviet World War II epic of surprising bluntness and artistic achievement. It follows Flyora (Aleksei Yevgenyevich Kravchenko) a Belarusian boy of roughly 13 and his involvement with the resistance to the German invasion in 1943. It's a rough, largely unsparing and defiantly unglamorous depiction of the horrors of war. Flyora seems to age decades in the matter of maybe weeks that this story covers. It's got some memorable visuals to it, haunting moments, it's played straight but at times still seems absurdist. It's memorable ending provides some elements of revenge fantasy, but even that is meant to feel not quite satisfying. That war is hell is strikingly conveyed. ****
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