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Thomas Henry Gould

12Feb12

Cinematic poetry. The last scene always gets me in tears. Pure poetry

OPTICWORM

1Jan12

I loved this movie ..although the making of vas more entertaining.

I can't help seeing this as an information film about the Hermitage and Russia rather than a real creative masterpiece, or at best a showcase for what camera nowadays, and rigorous planning, can achieve. I find that its always a slave to its conceit of the single take, and is unable, or unwilling, to break free.

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Joshuah

15Dec11

for similar films which I presume heavily influenced this check Miklos Jancso's Red Psalm... and a number of Angelopoulos.

Zefis

12Dec11

Dogville

Silence Please

6Dec11

I can appreciate, and I do, that this film was shot in one long shot. From a point of view, they say. I disagree with that. It's a point of view, but it's a fake one. The camera changes many times its high, gets unbalance to the sides in many places, and I saw almost 5 different zooms during the film. The staging of some of the scenes were too obvious and most of all, it became tedious and slow too early.

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frank sgro

21Nov11

Vorticoso viaggio attraverso arte e storia

neverlands

18Nov11

I had really hoped to like this one more than I did. While I can appreciate what Sokurov was trying to achieve, I just didn't enjoy it. Highlights for me were the few short moments featuring the Romanovs.

Justin Oakey

28Aug11

While incredibly impressive, as most would agree, "Russian Ark" is not a one trick pony. In fact, it manages to present a wonderfully engaging story that would be just as engaging had it been done in more than a single shot. Every shot is breathtaking - the costumes, the rooms, the orchestras, it was all perfect.

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Adythia Utama

27Aug11

one take ok.

shaun morrison

12Jun11

I justn bought this yesterday looks like really intresting i cant wait to see it ...

Sancar Seckiner

12Jun11

Uniq work in Hermitage.

davandwar

6Jun11

five stars for the final scenes of the ball and departing guests, also for maestro Gergiev!!! but four stars overall...

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faornelas

10May11

The only reason someone should see this is for the seamless mise-en-scene. (unless you are deeply interested in Russian History)

Kamineko

22Mar11

A sombre, colourful journey through time and our relation with history.

Cani

13Mar11

The underclass are eternal people. They live and go on living, they will outlive us all, eternal people.

Azrail

5Mar11

S 96 minuta kontinurianog kadra, epizodama neprozirne bizarnosti, bešavnim stapanjem prošlosti, istinolikosti, sadašnjosti i izvještaćenosti, čini konceptualno smioni fragment sna - melanholije, ne more ... sure, but is it cinema?

Beneezy

10Jan11

A tour de force...

Romeodelmare

12Dec10

A GENIUS. like ME... (?)

MazzingerZ

15Nov10

I found this film very moving, beautiful, you get a snap of the huge Russian history and their contribution to world's culture and all the greateness behind it, you understand why someone from that country could be extremely out of this world...well I know one at least. Cool.

WansSpiess

6Nov10

Uma viagem sem cortes em um dos museus mais lindos do mundo! Fico feliz de ter tido o privilegio de ter visto nas telas e ao vivo !

ottoklaus

6Nov10

Fantástico!

Ysis

29Oct10

it's amazing!!!

Arisa

24Oct10

I agree that this film really deserves credit for being done in one shot. I personally thought it could've been more interesting, though. (I mean, c'mon, Russian history is SO colorful and fascinating!)

Allan

19Oct10

I found it to be an absolutely banal tourist guide spectacle, which had absolutely nothing at all to say, explicitly at least as implicitly I found it nationalistic and reactionary in it's lavish glorification of the aristocracy. The dialog was utterly trite, the framing devise of the european (who was really annoying) and the russian uninteresting and I didn't think it looked as good as it could have. Just rubbish.

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