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Kathleen 2022-04-19 09:02:39

I suddenly remembered this movie and forgot to scold it after watching it. In fact, it is just a sentence: a man who claimed to have Chekhov, Tolstoy and other bearded people on the bookcase at home actually started the so-called "sacred Russian national culture" tour in the emperor's court? ! ? I do not recall that in any of Lermontov's or Tolstoy's texts there is a detailed exaggeration of the residence of the old emperor. Even "reactionaries" like Toon in the early years and "Reactionaries" like Toon in the later years have never seen them so painstakingly touted the court, the tsar (and those after him) and the sacred "Russian culture" Pass.

It is said that the director is also from the Moscow Film Academy. Then, he must have seen his predecessor's "Andrei Rublev" or even just heard it. However, this is unbelievable. Because isn't the culture of the Russian nation sitting on the wooden beams of the thirteenth-century forest church? Isn't it scattered among the vast expanses of villages along the way to the Siberian penal colonies? Isn't it lying quietly on the Hetao meadows of the Don and Volga rivers? Wasn't it sitting in unattended hunting lodges in the Caucasus and Ural mountains? But no, the director said, in the city; in St. Petersburg; in the court; in the Hermitage.

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

    Sokolov hopes to resurrect the imaginary and aesthetic Russian golden age with a block-shaped overall space, and connect it with continental European culture, and usher in the end of the film-the pale, fading era: 1917 Nothing in "Russian Ark" mentions the Soviet red regime, but this historical absence has become a scarred existence in the true sense, and it also exists in the Russian audience watching it. However, under the baroque existence of "Russia", a postmodern writing was accidentally completed. The long shot and voice-over framed a hidden subject for the film, and witnessed a time of Deleuze with different scenes and speed movements. In this ark, the co-presence of history/reality means that the linear chronological history is broken, and it is arbitrarily connected with the current or non-historical state, and smoothly the camera’s Movement, an inland space-style plateau was created.

  • Darion 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    He's hard enough to make, and he's ambitious enough, but to me, it's a really unattractive film. It's really uncomfortable when the camera becomes a character throughout the film, forcing you to constantly zoom in on the camera's presence.

Russian Ark quotes

  • Orbeli: Is something still troubling you? Is it the authorities? They want acorns without oak trees. They are not interested in knowing how to nurture the tree of culture, but it will be their doom if the tree falls. Then there will be nothing left. Can't they understand that?

  • The Time Traveller: Sir. Sir. A pity you're not here with me. You would understand everything. Look. The sea is all around. And we are destined to sail forever, to live forever.