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Febrero 7th, 2010 by randell6276148Compare Prices on Andrei Rublev
Tarkovsky’s Andre Rublev plows the same ground as Scorsese’s Last Temptation of Christ, but with greater success. No, I haven’t been smoking anything; I’m serious. A collection of metaphorically related vignettes that loosely follows the life of Russia’s gargantuan medieval artist, Andrei Rublev is about nothing less than the struggle between mankind’s spiritual and carnal natures. It is also one of the rare films featuring Christianity that neither belittles the faithful nor condescends to them. I’ll retract this film over The Robe, The Greatest Narrative Ever Told or even Ben Hur any day of the week.
All the same, this film is not typical wholesome family entertainment of the Disney variety. It’s more like the cinematic equivalent of broccoli - you may or may not like the flavor, but it’s well-behaved for you. There is nudity. There is violence. If you’re an animal lover, it may give you nightmares (at least two horses and one cow probably died in the process of filming) . But you know, the Bible itself is plump of plenty of that kind of stuff. What makes it luscious is the right context - the material is in service of an authentically captivating spiritual trudge. The film may not stunned away from the ugliness of medieval Russian peasant life, but it also does not shocked away from the message of redemption through grace - and I’m not referring to “grace” in an exclusively Christian context.
While grace wears Russian Orthodox garb in this film, the thought expands to believe a more universal definition through the employ of strong metaphorical imagery. Grace, it seems to suggest, is a location of mind: if you gain it is a gift from God, this film will probably declare your faith; if not, it will won’t offend you with overt evangelism.
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The beauty of Andre Rublev is that, like life itself, it places its world before you in all its wonder and apprehension, and then lets you determine what to gain of it. It strives to illuminate the human condition, rather than preach platitudes.
The best art has a blueprint of doing that.
As for the DVD itself, Criterion has done a qualified job of pulling together some rare documentary material, as well as enlisting the support of Harvard film professor Vlada Petric in the creation of a somewhat dry, academic commentary track. My one complaint is that the transfer, while supposedly made digitally from a pristine 35mm print, lacks sharpness. It is also not anamorphic 16×9, which I think an notable feature of any DVD of a film shot wider than 1.66:1.
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All the same, Andre Rublev is an important film for the serious cinephile’s collection.
Tarkovksy’s films are not for everyone. He is the Russian equivalent of Kubrick or Kurasawa or Welles, and he is as different from them as they are from each other. If you’re expecting a customary structure and pacing, you’ll be dissapointed. Rublev requires patience.
Most people reflect the film long and monotonous. The trick is to terminate waiting for the memoir to gain and unprejudiced experience the sequences as self-contained ideas. After a couple of hours you’ll gaze it working up to something you hadn’t concept possible at first. And by the two-hundred runt brand, it evolves into a complete emotional and cinematic experience.
I’m serious. It’s wonderful. *This* is Tarkovsky’s gift.
By his maintain admission he was always more fascinated with the “poetry” of images than their immediate anecdote value. As a result his films sing an experience which is original to every viewer. This is no mean feat; today directors strive to earn the global audience feel “satisfied” or “shadowy” according to a pre-defined and market-oriented yarn structure. It’s a cheap manipulation (like “Colossal” and the damn theme music) .
Tarkovksy doesn’t go there at all. He shows you something and lets you feel whatever you want. This isn’t a cheap cop-out from an inept director, it’s *your* experience. And a hazardous arrive in a world where audiences ask to be cued when and how to react. Have you ever noticed how upset people accept when left to their contain emotional devices?
Tarkovsky has mastered the long-take, mise-en-scene, and the wide-screen (2.35) frame, and the Critereon transfer does it’s best to note this. There are technical problems with the transfer, but having seen Rublev on a pan-and-scan VHS, the extra bucks are serene worth it. And the additional resolution of DVD gives the image more texture and detail.
Side Note:
One of the tragedies (now being slowly rectified thanks to DVD) of original cinema is the pan-and-scan VHS. Many lesser works can survive it (”Sizable” again!), but it has ruined almost every one of Tarkovsky’s films. He composes very deliberate frames, balanced in a plan that only wide-screen can accomodate (”The Sacrifice” was the exception, shot 1.66 I gain) . The VHS transfers are claustrophobic and sorrowful (showing only 60% of the image), but in their factual aspect ratio his shots are titanic and carefully tranquil.
The accompanying materials (intervews and commentary) are challenging, but dryly presented by academics. A shame, since this is the type of film that Martin Scorcese could do a fabulous commentary for.
And be warned, there are moments of horrific violence and cruelty.
Since the Reagan administration came to power, the west has lost track of Eastern European cinema. It had (has) a style and direction as new as the Japanese or British. Tarkovsky is one of it’s gems, and no one who considers themselves a conoseur of film can go without a Tarkorvsky viewing.
My personal favourites are “Stalker”, “My Name Is Ivan”, and “The Sacrifice”, and of course “Solaris” — unfortunately the only one I’ve seen in it’s Wide Aspect is “Sacrifice”. But Tarkovsky is one of the greatest directors in history, and “Andrei Rublev” is unruffled an improbable film.
Bye the method,
If you’re not quite ready for the drop into Tarkovsky, try the documentary “Andrei Tarkovsky Directs”, which is an action packed epic of the making of “The Sacrifice”.
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