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May 11, 2005
Russian Ark
Russian Ark (2002), Aleksandr Sokurov:
A 96-minute movie travelling through the Russian Hermitage Museum and grandiosely scenes recreated from the high and low times of Russian history, containted entirely in one shot. It's a technical achievement and utterly gorgeous (though the digitial video is a little grainy, it somehow makes the experience more vivid). It's also a little dull and without an intimate knowledge of Russian history or an immediate sense of importance there's not much else to focus on but the filmmaking, which doesn't take 96 minutes really to comprehend.
7/15
Posted by bing at May 11, 2005 11:27 AM