Andrei Rublev

Andrei Rublev is quite an amazing film. It functions a bit like staring at something then moving your gaze to see the afterimage. The world it recreates is encompassing and absorbing; at the end when the painting is shown in color one has new eyes to see, a new perspective. I've never seen a film quite like it.

However...


In a film that shows the brutality and violence of 15th century Russia, terrible things happen to people - and we know those things were simulated, though they look very real. Terrible things happened to animals, though, and those were real. I don't think there can be justification for that.

Labels: Netflix