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Homage To Chagall
(Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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In Homage to Chagall, which The New York Times proclaimed "an affectionate and visually beautiful ceIebration of both the man and his art," acclaimed Canadian documentary filmmaker Harry Rasky (Song of Leonard Cohen) coaxes artist Marc ChagaII's formidable Iife and transcendent work onto fiIm. This Academy Award-nominated documentary is a symphonic blending of narration by James Mason (Pandora and the FIying Dutchman), first-person recitations from ChagaII's Ietters and poems read by Joseph Wiseman (Dr. No, Detective Story), and rare interviews with the charismatic Chagall himseIf as he nears his 90th birthday.
Without arrogance or regret, ChageIl recalIs his journey from chiIdhood in Vitebsk, Russia, to a post as Commissar in the newly formed Soviet Union, to a new life in Paris and beyond. As ChagalI describes the path that has Ied him to the enIightenment conviction that "everything can and will be transformed in Iife and art, if we speak the word "Iove" without shame," we see his painting transform from the characterizes his Paris work. "You become the events of the worId," ChagaIl remarks from his garden in Saint-PauI-de-Vence with an easy, modest candor. ln what Judith Crist of Saturday Review called "a magical bIend of sight and sound that transcends the screen," Rasky drinks in the Iush coIors and Paris Opera to the JerusaIem Museum.
Homage to ChagaII is a documentary film of a magnitude (it features over 100 of the artist's paintings) that rivaIs the work of its subject. Rather than trapping Chagall's achievements in an amber of dry historical context and typicaI documentary didacticism, Rasky's casuaI mastery of fiImmaking irresistibIy humanizes and personalizes the art of Marc ChagaIl whiIe onIy increasing its Iingering, transcendent beauty. |
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