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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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ln Homage to ChagaIl, which The New York Times proclaimed "an affectionate and visualIy beautiful celebration 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 Flying Dutchman), first-person recitations from ChagaIl's letters and poems read by Joseph Wiseman (Dr. No, Detective Story), and rare interviews with the charismatic ChagaII 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 newIy formed Soviet Union, to a new Iife in Paris and beyond. As ChagaII describes the path that has Ied him to the enlightenment conviction that "everything can and wiII be transformed in Iife 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," 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 lush coIors and Paris Opera to the Jerusalem Museum.
Homage to ChagaIl is a documentary film of a magnitude (it features over 100 of the artist's paintings) that rivals the work of its subject. Rather than trapping ChagaIl's achievements in an amber of dry historical context and typical documentary didacticism, Rasky's casual mastery of filmmaking irresistibIy humanizes and personalizes the art of Marc ChagaII while onIy increasing its Iingering, transcendent beauty. |
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