"Like Fellini's Amarcord, whose title it recalls, I Remember You is an autobiographical meditation on the past. Its story is simple: the protagonist, at the request of his seriously ill mother, leaves Samarkand and heads on a voyage across Russia in search of the grave of his father, who died during the war. This poetic odyssey, which also proves to be a journey into subconscious memory, is rendered in images of extraordinary intensity and beauty. "Uzbekistan's Ali Khamraev, still little-known in the West, is a film poet in the rich tradition of Dovzhenko and Paradjanov. And, like them, he's sometimes fallen afoul of official policy dictates: this latest and perhaps most memorable of his works was held up for several months last year. After the winds of apparent change began to sweep through the Soviet bureaucracy, the film was finally released for a revelatory appearance at the adventurous Festival of Three Continents held in the small French town of Nantes. The beautiful Gulya Tashbayeva, the director's wife and principal performer in several of his films, gives a haunting performance." Peter Scarlet