Russian Ark Comments

  • Jessyca 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    I really feel that those who give more than 4 stars are purely pretending to commit crimes. I can't accept such a long shot. When I introduce it to my students, I will say: Don't watch it, it's too boring. Samsung all give "professional...

  • Sedrick 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    The 90-minute long shot is destined to be too limited, and the shot is always moving, and the space and characters are always changing, which is too difficult. The director is ambitious, but is destined to leave many flaws. Maybe he himself is in trouble, oh, should I do it all over again? Still, it's interesting to look at it every now and then. I like the ending, it feels like a...

  • Georgianna 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    I re-read it and changed it from four stars to five stars. Director Sokurov said that one shot is not the purpose of the film, but only a means. The middle plot may be a bit long, but the ending is very good, St. Petersburg, the Hermitage, the band of the Marin Theater, the ball of the golden age, the long, distant echoes, the lost French diplomat said: "You go, I will stay Here....

  • Ronny 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    The extreme experiment, the "one shot to the end" technique is throughout, but it is more interesting than many edited movies. The push-pull and panning of the lens is beautiful, sometimes swooping and sliding, and sometimes panning and pulling in, showing the changing characteristics of the lens, which is as artistic as the content displayed by the lens. Concise and informative shooting thinking is worth learning. The pleasure of long shots to the audience is "discovery", but too many people...

  • Ashly 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    ★★★ Legendary 90-minute long take... A movie full of magic. The picture is beautiful, the Russian art is really beautiful, but the movie is really quite...

  • Deondre 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    It's so beautiful. Originally, I thought it was a bit boring to mutter to myself, but in the end, the camera went to the sea, surrounded by the sea, and we were destined to drift forever and live forever. Sadness and melancholy surged up at once, and the history of more than two hundred years flowed in these 90 minutes and was thrown into the long river of history. There is no story, and the meaning is greater than itself. It's a pity that I can't stay in that beauty with...

  • Darien 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    Lens: first, travel through time; second, zoom, the soul moves; third, the voice is indistinct, and in the end, I don't know if anyone can hear even a single word of my own. Shots blend into the long stream of time. Every character is nothing but a carrier of emotion and imagery. Yes, in a pair of eyes, what else could they be besides those? "No, I want to stay." Where to stay? Won't you get bored? It has always been a childish dream to stay. Sokolov's push was so integrated. Elements come and...

  • Chris 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    The swimming camera, the lens wanders, like a flowing museum, and the mysterious dream-like "interpreter" hiding behind the viewpoint makes the lens seem to have its own consciousness, a journey through history, a long look back , the door of history opens and closes, glimpses the glory and witnesses the ebb and flow of the territory, the girls on the promenade seem to be elves in the forest, the shock of the dream, the grand dance is like the dying moment of prosperity and decline, and the end...

  • Nicklaus 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    Sleeping for a while in the middle did not affect the overall impression, but the performance band that appeared at the dance scene brought surprise and sadness... Watching the last dinner of the Nicholas II family and the grand banquet that went away, I suddenly felt that there was no curtain call. History, there is no era that does not end, but painting, literature, music, architecture, drama and other arts are also stained with the atmosphere of the times for future generations to recall and...

  • Hester 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    A fantastic tour of the Palace of the Russian History Museum. —— It should have been in 2012 that I learned about this long-shot film "Russian Ark", but it took so many years to finally watch it completely without fast-forwarding. As far as the story is concerned, it was somewhat uninteresting as I expected. Combined with the difficult long shots of the film, there is a feeling of "form over content". In contrast, I prefer "Elephant" and "Bird". People" and other long-shot business cards (in...

Extended Reading
  • Cathryn 2022-01-12 08:02:19

    The movie is a dream, every cut is a wake-up

    The second time, I watched the screening of the China Film Archive.

    In a darkness studded with noise, white fonts quietly floated out of the screen and were submerged. When the last line "Alexander Sokurov" appeared, it felt as if God stretched out his hand and personally delivered a piece of bread...

  • Reva 2022-03-24 09:03:06

    Life is probably like an unedited long shot

    I remember that the last long shot was the speeding of Fa Shark in Shame. He just ran and ran like this, and the color of the picture was so cold.


    I feel that in many moments, encountering different people reflects a different self. It is not so much that the filmmakers traveled through time and...

Russian Ark quotes

  • Alla Osipenko: This painting and I; we have a secret.

  • The Stranger: Let's proceed with caution. These madmen could eat us.

    The Time Traveller: They liked your hair.

    The Stranger: Of course, I'm a writer. Writer's always have good hair.

Russian Ark

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov

Language: Russian,Persian Release date: April 19, 2003

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