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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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  • Darion 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    He's hard enough to make, and he's ambitious enough, but to me, it's a really unattractive film. It's really uncomfortable when the camera becomes a character throughout the film, forcing you to constantly zoom in on the camera's presence.

  • Magnus 2022-01-12 08:02:19

    The Steadicam sports long mirror (zoom and surround) that is pleasing to the eye, the important figures in Russian history who take turns appearing in the Winter Palace, resemble the extreme presentation of Joanzhe's open space-time view, but it is inevitably boring. Two narrators, photographer + narrator and diplomat, intervene in the separation, nostalgic for the past and sad for the present, and gaze at the artwork/viewer. The Russian Ark on the ocean is also a metaphor for the close relationship between Russia and Europe. (8.5/10)

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.