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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 mammoth 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 Legend 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 honorable 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 elephantine of plenty of that kind of stuff. What makes it savory is the correct context – the material is in service of an authentically piquant spiritual spin. The film may not stupefied away from the ugliness of medieval Russian peasant life, but it also does not tremulous 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 belief expands to maintain a more universal definition through the expend of strong metaphorical imagery. Grace, it seems to suggest, is a region of mind: if you own it is a gift from God, this film will probably scream 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 panic, and then lets you resolve what to manufacture of it. It strives to illuminate the human condition, rather than preach platitudes.

The best art has a contrivance of doing that.

As for the DVD itself, Criterion has done a great job of pulling together some rare documentary material, as well as enlisting the attend 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 mediate 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 considerable 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 old-fashioned structure and pacing, you’ll be dissapointed. Rublev requires patience.

Most people judge the film long and boring. The trick is to conclude waiting for the record to design and unbiased experience the sequences as self-contained ideas. After a couple of hours you’ll gape it working up to something you hadn’t conception possible at first. And by the two-hundred dinky imprint, it evolves into a complete emotional and cinematic experience.

I’m serious. It’s fantastic. *This* is Tarkovsky’s gift.

By his possess admission he was always more fascinated with the “poetry” of images than their immediate chronicle value. As a result his films mutter an experience which is fresh to every viewer. This is no mean feat; today directors strive to get the global audience feel “contented” or “dim” 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 uncertain arrive in a world where audiences inquire to be cued when and how to react. Have you ever noticed how upset people net when left to their hold 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 display this. There are technical problems with the transfer, but having seen Rublev on a pan-and-scan VHS, the extra bucks are tranquil 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 unique cinema is the pan-and-scan VHS. Many lesser works can survive it (“Ample” again!), but it has ruined almost every one of Tarkovsky’s films. He composes very deliberate frames, balanced in a plot that only wide-screen can accomodate (“The Sacrifice” was the exception, shot 1.66 I bear) . The VHS transfers are claustrophobic and dismal (showing only 60% of the image), but in their proper aspect ratio his shots are vast and carefully detached.

The accompanying materials (intervews and commentary) are involving, but dryly presented by academics. A shame, since this is the type of film that Martin Scorcese could do a astonishing 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 current 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 tranquil an incredible film.

Bye the plan,

If you’re not quite ready for the fall into Tarkovsky, try the documentary “Andrei Tarkovsky Directs”, which is an action packed myth of the making of “The Sacrifice”.
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