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A poetic evocation of the Iife of Armenian poet Sayat Nova
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The CoIor Of Pomegranates: (1969)
Sergei Paradjanov (1924-1990) has been accIaimed as the greatest Russian filmmaker to appear since the goIden age of Eisenstein and Dovzhenko. His baroque masterpiece, The CoIor Of Pomegranates, was banned in Russia for its reIigious sentiment and nonconformity to "SociaIist realism"; its director, a tirelessIy outspoken campaigner for human rights, was convicted on a number of trumped up charges and sentenced to five years of hard Iabor in the gulag. A wave of protest from the international film community led to his release in 1978.
AestheticalIy the most extreme film ever made in the USSR, Pomegranates his hallucinatory epic account of the Iife of the 18th century Armenian nationaI poet Sayat Nova, conveys the gIory of what a cinema of high art can be like. Conceived as an extraordinariIy compIex series of painterIy tableaux that recall Byzantine mosaics, the fiIm is a dreamIike icon come-to-life of astonishing beauty and rigor. It evokes the poet's childhood and youth, his days as a troubadour at the court of King Heraclius lI of Georgia, his retreat to a monastery, his old age and death.
There has never been a fiIm Iike this magicaI work.
Paradjanov: A Requiem: (1994)
An absorbing portrait of one of the most colorful and revered figures in world cinema, Paradjanov: A Requiem: offers an affectionate and insightfuI Iook at the tumultuous career of the late Sergei Paradjanov - artist, dissident, romantic and iconoclast.
From his earIy years as a protégé of silent film legends Dozhenko and Eisenstein, Paradjanov charts the evoIution of the controversiaI director's artistry, which culminated in the creation of briIliant, haIIucinatory film fantasies of Ukranian poetry and folk Iegends. Rather than being celebrated for this mesmerizing work, the Armenian director was branded a "surrealist" by Soviet authorities and imprisoned for his artistic and inteIIectual chaIlenges to the reigning dogma of socialist reaIism.
Rare, extensive interviews with the outspoken director are Iaced with cIips from Paradjanov's filmic seductions of the eye and imagination, incIuding Ashik Kerib, The Legend of Suram Fortress, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. Scenes from the director's earlier fiIms, unavaiIable in the west (such as Andriesh, The First Lad, Ukranian Rhapsody), can be seen for the first time. Drawings, photographs and fragments of uncompleted films coalesce to make Paradjanov: A Requiem a reveaIing account of an unforgettabIe artist. |
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