Friday, February 29, 2008

Russian Ark (2002)

The story of how I came across this is almost as bizarre as the story itself. At first a seemingly simple tale, it turns, rotates and ducks through passageways, art rooms, ball sequences, orchestras, in and out of snow and even more as it winds through Russian history.

The magnificent technical achievement of the film often, rather unfortunately, overshadows the film itself - one single, unedited shot. But what is often not noted is the story. For someone who knows little of my own history, this prompted many questions into not only Russian artistry, but what I've been missing of my own.

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