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Andrei Rublev (movie)
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Superb depiction of Medieval Russia, in eight sections and an epilogue, based on the life of the icon painter Andrei Rublev. The black and white tones are sublime, Tarkovsky's imagery makes me feel as if virtually every frame could be shown in a photo exhibition.
The final section, the casting of the church bell, the monumental climax and the crying breakdown of the bellmaker boy, is IMHO the most astonishing and emotionally draining depiction of the agony and ecstasy of an artist's act of creation ever put on the screen in world cinema.
It just gets me every time as the old Rublev is comforting the sobbing collapsed boy in an ocean of mud: "You've created such a feast, such a joy for people... why crying? "
And then we suddenly switch to colour... as the epilogue shows the details of Rublev's masterworks.
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This will be my 5th Tarkovsky film. First was stalker even tough i don't like it still it left a huge impact on me. I absolutely loved Mirror, Nostalghia, Solaris. I was excited to see Andrei Rublev after reading it's controversies themes and reviews about it.
But I am finding my self very difficult to even finish the film. Currently I have watched 1.20 hours of the film and I am finding it very boring. There were many parts where I was finding very nonsensical. How instantly danill came in 4th part or why Rublev does not want to pain the last judgement? Like in the previous part he was saying to those naked people that "last judgement is coming and you will be burned" so what happened in between the parts which made him realised that?
There was one scene in 5th part where a boy is reading a book(maybe Bible I don't know) and I am just not able to understand why does that scene exist? Even tough visually it's very beautiful like other Tarkovsky films but I am not able to understand what is the meaning or what is happening? Maybe the reason is I don't know anything about Christianity because I am not Christian and I don't know about medieval history of Russia. Please help me understand the film and it's themes and elements.
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I already have a post related to this film which you can check from my account. Basically I was finding it boring.
But the last 1hr moved me. I again watch some of its part total 1hr 30 mins. It helped me understand better. I like how it shows medieval Russia as I am not a huge fan of medieval era films.
Also I like how it shows unwelcoming nature of monks towards other people. Andrei was also one of them he was changed after naked people incident. He wanted show Welcoming side of God which was filled with love and not judgement.
It was pretty evident why he rejected to paint The last judgement. The things he said to prince's daughter that "prophecies shall fail but not charity".
But after the raid he was disheartened that world is so cruel. He lost hope in goodness of humanity and decides not to paint again. He takes a vow of silence to repent for his sins also he has nothing to say to the people.
Unfortunately the girl whom he saved from getting raped by tartars runs away and marry with one of the tartar noble. He could have saved her if he would have spoken something. He lost faith that nothing can change people. But when he meets Boris who is casting a bell.
He lied to the nobles that he has a secret technique for casting Bells and worked with full faith and determination. This and Cryill confession made him realise that he was wrong to stop painting and taking a vow of silence. Because of Boris's faith he was able to cast a bell and people were happy and helping eachother in the time of difficulties. Andrei learned that his faith/his art will last and make people humanity United and happy which was evident in the last ten minutes where Tarkovsky showed his paintings.
He finally has hope that there is some good left in people and should never stop doing good deeds. He was neither helping himself or others by stop painting and taking a vow of silence.
So for me the film is about having faith in difficult times, sturggle of an artist etc.
Even though there are some parts that I don't understand that when Andrei decided to paint the feast his mood was changed as if he forgot that his assistant got attacked by prince And horse symbolism at the end. What do you think about the film? Would love to know your opinion.
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I just had the pleasure of watching a screening of Andrei Tarkovskys 1966 film, Andrei Rublev. It's not that I dislike the film, I found it beautifully shot and most of what it had to tell was really interesting. But it felt so incoherent at certain points that it almost started to confuse me. Is there anyone else that shares these feelings with me or am I alone in this?
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As the title says. I got into him last summer when Stalker was released. I had never seen any of his films, as they always were intimidating to me. I'd heard about how slow and complex they were, how Tarkovsky takes his time with his shots. I was afraid I'd be bored but gave Stalker a shot based on all the positivity on here. Holy hell, was it great. I put off watching any more of his works, as I wanted to fully absorb Stalker. Recently I've seen Solaris and the Sacrifice, both of which were fantastic. I love how thought provoking and philosophical his films are, complimented by the rich set pieces and beautiful cinematography (though I'm not a huge fan of how dry the dialogue is, as thought provoking as it can be). Needless to say, I'm excited to check out more of his works. I'm sure this has been posted countless times, but with the upcoming re-release of Andrei Rublev, let's talk about Tarkovsky. What do you like about him, what don't you like?
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feel free to revoke my cinephile card, but this one didnt really work for me. i've enjoyed everything ive seen from tarkovsky thus far, but this one just didnt seem to click for me. it was shot beautifully and has great themes regarding religion and art but it felt flat to me overall. i suppose i expected to feel something deeper or more profound but to me the majority of it felt dull.
maybe i went in with too high of expectations because of how revered it is in the community, but i didnt really get much out of it other than nice visuals. the structuring of different acts felt awkward and disjointed and many of them didnt seem to be connected by any theme or message being portrayed.
i really liked the sequence with the pagans in the woods as well as the very end with andrei breaking his vow of silence to talk with the bell maker boy, but overall i think my hopes were too high.
id love to hear what you guys think of this one, perhaps i just missed or overlooked some things
This film is regarded as one of the greatest of all time, so I'm a bit surprised this hasn't been discussed on here.
Well, maybe I'm not that surprised, since this is one of the hardest films to talk about.
The 8 chapters of the film are very loosely connected and center around the life of the Russian icon painter Andrei Rublev. This is stretching it a bit, we never see him actually paint, we mostly see him from behind or engaged in lengthy dialogues.
The film is a very realistic portrait of medieval Russia. It contains beautiful compositions and a some very powerful scenes. There is no coherent plot, no character development and no particular pacing.
A common opinion seems to be that this film is hard to put into words and is supposed to be a spiritual experience.
There seems to be a thin line between "greatest film ever" and "utter pretentious crap". What is your experience with this film? What makes this film great in your opinion?
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