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The Sacrifice, to begin with.

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In Reply to: Re: Tarkovsky _ What are the one I shoud get?_ Victor & Rhiz ? posted by patrickU on February 03, 2004 at 08:55:43:

A beautiful film, like no other...except, that is, for the other beautiful films which are like no other.
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, 8 1/2, The Sacrifice, Double Life of Veronique, 2 or 3 things I know about her (or Pierrot le Fou, or Weekend...)...in my opinion, the very best films all hit the same high note, which is not so much 'dreamlike' in some generic filmspeak way, but the literal stuff of dreams, the very feeling of inner life, with all its vagaries. That's mastery. The Sacrifice occupies this same high ground.
Fellini, Godard, Tarkovsky and Bunuel are perhaps unique among the great directors in how consistently and effortlessly they achieve that sense of dislocation, which is still so familiar. They're like the best novelists in that regard. All truly great art, at the apex, achieves the exact same end. What that end is, exactly, I can't quite pin down. But I know it when I see it.
Sorry for the tangent.

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Re: The Sacrifice, to begin with. - patrickU 01:21:01 02/04/04 (0)
Well..Thank you for this answer, no problem with the disgression, speaking of films is never a pain for me!
PS : Did you really like " Week End? "
Disagreeing gently - Victor Khomenko 12:41:58 02/03/04 (3)
Sacrifice is perhaps the least Tarkovsky of Tarkovsky films - it is pure Bergman, albeit done on a lower scale.
- And, interestingly, - Bulkington 08:00:10 02/04/04 (0)
  it's also very much influenced by Kurasawa's I Live in Fear . An ambiguous and mystical refashioning.
- I wouldn't say it's 'the least' for that reason, - rhizomatic 13:32:02 02/03/04 (1)
  but I do think you're right. I would also count Bergman among the group I mentioned, although I'd like to say something like The Sacrifice is the Bergman film I care about the most. Always something a bit academic about Bergman to me, I think that's a common criticism. The Sacrifice, then, is Bergman with a richer humanity, or something along those lines...
  
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  - Re: I wouldn't say it's 'the least' for that reason, - Victor Khomenko 13:45:18 02/03/04 (0)
    I don't think Bergman is academic... his "problem" is that he studies and he talks about the subject that is foreign to many viewers who were brought up watching lesser works - he is absorbed in the human soul. But once you break that initial barrier you discover that he is talking about YOU, and you find more and more of yoruself in his works, and they become unpretentious and comfortable, although still challenging your emotions and self-analysis.
    And it is so comfortable to know that that tradition is being continued by his student Liv Ullmann, whose Faithless is the masterpiece in its own right, but with extremely strong homage to the great Master.

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