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Kathleen 2022-04-19 09:02:39

I suddenly remembered this movie and forgot to scold it after watching it. In fact, it is just a sentence: a man who claimed to have Chekhov, Tolstoy and other bearded people on the bookcase at home actually started the so-called "sacred Russian national culture" tour in the emperor's court? ! ? I do not recall that in any of Lermontov's or Tolstoy's texts there is a detailed exaggeration of the residence of the old emperor. Even "reactionaries" like Toon in the early years and "Reactionaries" like Toon in the later years have never seen them so painstakingly touted the court, the tsar (and those after him) and the sacred "Russian culture" Pass.

It is said that the director is also from the Moscow Film Academy. Then, he must have seen his predecessor's "Andrei Rublev" or even just heard it. However, this is unbelievable. Because isn't the culture of the Russian nation sitting on the wooden beams of the thirteenth-century forest church? Isn't it scattered among the vast expanses of villages along the way to the Siberian penal colonies? Isn't it lying quietly on the Hetao meadows of the Don and Volga rivers? Wasn't it sitting in unattended hunting lodges in the Caucasus and Ural mountains? But no, the director said, in the city; in St. Petersburg; in the court; in the Hermitage.

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  • Christy 2022-03-17 09:01:06

    The director strives to create a sense of time and space and aesthetics. The Ark, yes, the real Russian culture is on Noah's Ark.

  • Sedrick 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    The 90-minute long shot is destined to be too limited, and the shot is always moving, and the space and characters are always changing, which is too difficult. The director is ambitious, but is destined to leave many flaws. Maybe he himself is in trouble, oh, should I do it all over again? Still, it's interesting to look at it every now and then. I like the ending, it feels like a lifetime.

Russian Ark quotes

  • Alla Osipenko: This painting and I; we have a secret.

  • The Stranger: Let's proceed with caution. These madmen could eat us.

    The Time Traveller: They liked your hair.

    The Stranger: Of course, I'm a writer. Writer's always have good hair.