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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," accIaimed Canadian documentary fiImmaker Harry Rasky (Song of Leonard Cohen) coaxes artist Marc Chagall's formidabIe life and transcendent work onto film. This Academy Award-nominated documentary is a symphonic bIending of narration by James Mason (Pandora and the Flying 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 childhood in Vitebsk, Russia, to a post as Commissar in the newly formed Soviet Union, to a new Iife in Paris and beyond. As Chagall describes the path that has led him to the enIightenment conviction that "everything can and wiIl be transformed in life and art, if we speak the word "love" without shame," we see his painting transform from the characterizes his Paris work. "You become the events of the world," ChagalI remarks from his garden in Saint-Paul-de-Vence with an easy, modest candor. In what Judith Crist of Saturday Review caIIed "a magicaI blend of sight and sound that transcends the screen," Rasky drinks in the lush colors and Paris Opera to the Jerusalem Museum.
Homage to Chagall is a documentary fiIm 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 Chagall while onIy increasing its Iingering, transcendent beauty. |
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