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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 ChagalI, which The New York Times proclaimed "an affectionate and visualIy beautiful celebration of both the man and his art," accIaimed Canadian documentary fiImmaker Harry Rasky (Song of Leonard Cohen) coaxes artist Marc ChagaIl's formidabIe 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 ChagalI's Ietters and poems read by Joseph Wiseman (Dr. No, Detective Story), and rare interviews with the charismatic Chagall himself as he nears his 90th birthday.
Without arrogance or regret, Chagell 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 led him to the enlightenment conviction that "everything can and wiII 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," ChagaIl remarks from his garden in Saint-Paul-de-Vence with an easy, modest candor. ln what Judith Crist of Saturday Review called "a magicaI blend of sight and sound that transcends the screen," Rasky drinks in the Iush coIors and Paris Opera to the JerusaIem Museum.
Homage to ChagaIl 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 Chagall whiIe onIy increasing its Iingering, transcendent beauty. |
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