Russian Ark (2002)
(Russki Kovcheg)
Country: RUS/GER/JAP/CAN/FIN/DK
Technical: col 99m
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Cast: Sergei Dreiden, Maria Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy
Synopsis:
A disembodied narrator enters the Hermitage in St Petersburg as if in a dream and meets a deathlike European who has been absent for a long time; together they embark on a voyage through Russian history and art, finally parting company before the narrator discovers they are actually floating at sea for eternity.
Review:
Shot in a continuous take the film is a noted artistic feat, though of necessity limited in its dramatic possibilities and use of lighting. The fixed point of view is ultimately mesmeric and even, for want of a better word, soporific, but it conveys an elegiac mood reminiscent of Tarkovsky.
(Russki Kovcheg)
Country: RUS/GER/JAP/CAN/FIN/DK
Technical: col 99m
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Cast: Sergei Dreiden, Maria Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy
Synopsis:
A disembodied narrator enters the Hermitage in St Petersburg as if in a dream and meets a deathlike European who has been absent for a long time; together they embark on a voyage through Russian history and art, finally parting company before the narrator discovers they are actually floating at sea for eternity.
Review:
Shot in a continuous take the film is a noted artistic feat, though of necessity limited in its dramatic possibilities and use of lighting. The fixed point of view is ultimately mesmeric and even, for want of a better word, soporific, but it conveys an elegiac mood reminiscent of Tarkovsky.
(Russki Kovcheg)
Country: RUS/GER/JAP/CAN/FIN/DK
Technical: col 99m
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Cast: Sergei Dreiden, Maria Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy
Synopsis:
A disembodied narrator enters the Hermitage in St Petersburg as if in a dream and meets a deathlike European who has been absent for a long time; together they embark on a voyage through Russian history and art, finally parting company before the narrator discovers they are actually floating at sea for eternity.
Review:
Shot in a continuous take the film is a noted artistic feat, though of necessity limited in its dramatic possibilities and use of lighting. The fixed point of view is ultimately mesmeric and even, for want of a better word, soporific, but it conveys an elegiac mood reminiscent of Tarkovsky.