The White Crow Comments

  • Colten 2022-04-23 07:04:28

    The story of a rebellious and ambitious ballerina growing up and defecting to the Soviet Union. Three clues, alternate editing, cross narrative, the film structure is full of features. The male lead performed brilliantly. Ralph Fiennes directed and starred. Self-destruction is brilliant. In the play, it is a teacher who is wearing a cuckold. The image is bald and wretched. It is hard to imagine that the male god is...

  • Declan 2022-04-23 07:04:28

    plate. I always feel that my face is a little bigger. White crows refer to white crows, usually due to albinism, and are used to describe people who are different. A genius who paid a huge price for his struggle against the current system and his complete freedom, but at the same time he achieved success and left regrets. He once said, "I am only alive when I am on...

  • Antonette 2022-04-23 07:04:28

    It's so boring, I can't watch it at...

  • Lewis 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    The male ballet is so...

  • Francis 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    The film is old-fashioned and steady, with nothing wrong or new. It writes the reasons and important moments of the great ballet dancer's "defection" to the Soviet Union from a Western-free perspective, but does not focus too much on ideological propaganda. with confrontation. It’s just a pity that the presentation of “Soviet Union (Russia)” is still mostly stereotyped, and the childhood memory part was shot badly, and the Russian land and its culture were not excavated from the root and given...

  • Myrl 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    Director Novice Village mission...

  • Samson 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    As a live-action biopic, there is no character arc, and neither talent nor talent is injected into the protagonist; the frequency of flashbacks in the three-part narrative is too high, causing confusion in memory points. The climax moment of the departure from the French airport is quite good. It is easy to think of "Escape from Tehran". The invisible high pressure of Soviet domestic politics and the free romance of France form a watershed in the protagonist. Oleg, born in 1996, is very...

  • Viviane 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    #hkiff##premiereelements# exceeded expectations. Different from ordinary biographical films, there are many descriptions of the background of the era. The protagonist is not a perfect depiction of genius, but directly shows his recklessness and pride. The exploration of the protagonist's childhood experience is more subtle and subtle, rather than the protagonist. of negative personalities are simply attributable to childhood or family of...

  • Eliezer 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    #HKIFF# This way of cutting is pretty good! In terms of the theme of catching a horse, the character change before the decisive step is not written deeply enough, and some lines seem to be broken after the plot is broken up, but the dancing part is really carefully shot. And you can still see the face? (The last part of this...

  • Halle 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    The texture of the film and the dull expressions of the characters make people feel like they are watching an immature student work. I even doubt whether the director wants to praise or satirize the male protagonist's dissolute and freedom-loving spirit. The surprise is that the airport pick up is just this part, and I can't help but sigh that there is such an operation. All in all, two and a half...

Extended Reading

The White Crow quotes

  • Rudolf Nureyev: I can live anywhere. Remember, I was born on a train. I feel I will never return to my country. But I may never be happy in yours.

  • [First Lines - dialogue entirely in Russian with English subtitles]

    Interrogator: You knew.

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: No.

    Interrogator: You knew what he was planning to do.

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: No.

    Interrogator: You're saying he never spoke of defection?

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: The subject never came up.

    Interrogator: He never spoke of it?

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: Never.

    Interrogator: This is an attack on the Soviet Union.

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: No, It's about dance.

    Interrogator: Dance?

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: He knows nothing about politics. He's gone to the West because there he can dance.

    Interrogator: He could dance here.

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: Yes, but... I think it's likely he had an explosion of character. That's who he is.