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Federico 2022-03-22 09:02:32

This is the work of Alexander Sokonov. The entire film is 90 minutes long, and there is only one long shot. This shooting method is a huge challenge for the director. It was required to shoot 90 minutes at a time in a palace in St. Petersburg in a continuous manner, allowing the filming time to coincide exactly with the filming time. Sokolov reiterates that there isn't a single cut in his work, taking his preferred long-shot aesthetic to the extreme. Every scene detail must be accurately calculated and arranged, and post-production adjustments are made to color, lighting and other picture effects without editing. A "Russian Ark", 200 years of modern history of Soviet Russia.

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  • Wilbert 2022-03-21 09:02:52

    The director's ambition. The technical difficulty of this film is so great that it can win the Best Director Award, huh, huh. The film intersperses the history and present of Russia through the subjective lens of one person and a stranger playing in the Hermitage Museum, while also making a cultural comparison between Russia and the rest of Europe.

  • 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.

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.