In Reply to: VK, polish your monocle . . . posted by albee33 on December 26, 2003 at 22:22:58:
That anything you can show to those who have never seen it is great, but I can assure you that what you saw was not realy the stongest foot forward.I agree the ball was entertaining - pun not truly intended - and from the craft standpoint it was a good experiment, and I will even give it to you that perhaps I am reacting too personally.
But that is *my* reality. Most of the rooms and paintings I remember all too well. I have personal memories of many events and people there, as I probably started visiting it when I was 7 or 8.
But even if you separate form that, all that stuff with the European visitor was frankly kaka, as the maker definitely had a message, a not too significant of a message, to be sure, and it was handled in Sokurov's typical heavy-handed and unpleasant manner.
So he tried to give the average tourist film some human face... but with a too big a dose of his usual unpleasantness.
You might want to see his other films, most notably the Telets and Molokh.
Ugly.
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- You are right on one point - Victor Khomenko 05:33:54 12/27/03 (0)