Pros: A technical marvel. High-brow eye-candy. Cons: Incoherent by any popular standard.
I first heard of Russian Ark here on epinions, where reviews
for the film are widely divided. Having now seen it, I find my own opinion to be widely divided. To say the film is inaccessible is an ...
Pros: Hermitage is gorgeous, costumes lavish and beautiful Cons: slow pacing, weird dialog, no identifiable plot, odd
After hearing so much praise for this movie, my husband and I were thrilled to see it finally show up at the closest Landmark Theater, and glad that we could fit it in this weekend and still not miss the Spurs games on Friday and Sunday nights. We'd...
Pros: Filmed in one uninterrupted shot; beautiful interiors of the Hermitage as a backdrop; luxuriant costumes Cons: Annoyingly weak script; very tedious
Have you ever had the experience of taking a guided tour and being irritated because the tour director was gabbing so much that he or she was detracting from the enjoyment of the site being toured? Russian Ark has all that tantalizing beauty of ...
Pros: Stunning architecture and artwork, monumental film-making accomplishment. Cons: Strange, slow-moving story, odd main character, stilted dialogue.
The trailer for Russian Ark displays the following statistics: 2000 actors, 33 rooms of the Hermitage museum, 3 full orchestras, 300 years of Russian history, 90 minutes of film, one continuous take. What resulted was a film of such ...
Pros: Profound technological achievement in cinema that enhances the craft on all levels Cons: a minor itch re: the guide character. Scratched. gone.
The fabulous and fantastic restored Downtown Normal (Illinois) Theater has rounded up yet another cinematic first, this time of an even more brilliant nature than that pristine, never-before-run-through-a-projector print of Goldfinger. This time, the...
Pros: Spellbinding, simply beautiful Cons: Very sad
With my deeply-rooted suspicion that Russian cinema generally has always been formulaic and unduly bogged down in stiff “cultural guidelines”, and that in recent years it has grown perfunctory, unimaginative, and self-indulgent to boot, I was no...
Pros: One take film is breathtaking to look at. Cons: Slow, inaccessible movie.
This movie is a fantasy and runs off the gimmick that it was shot on one 96 minute take. The movie is a homage to the St. Petersburg Hermitage State Museum, a place that has centuries of history to it. If it isn't, it should be one of the 10 ...
Pros: it just amazes you Cons: confusing at a point
After just finishing the movie, the only plot I got out of it was a guide character who is in Russia three-hundred years ago. He doesn't know how he is there, all he knows he is there. It's great that it never explains why, because it leave the guide char ...
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