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In Reply to: House of Fools---- posted by patrickU on November 23, 2004 at 08:56:51:
That all much agrees with my feelings too.The film is immensely powerful in its humanism - people don't just survive the destruction all around them, they flourish inspite of it. Their entirely human emotions and relationships just get stronger even as bullets fly right over their heads and explosions rock the walls of that delapidated building. They are almost like those flowers on the battlefields that used to drive soldiers nuts.
Some images in the film are simply timeless - like the helo falling down behind the girl, totally oblivious to those "minor things" - playing her accordion.
As I mentioned, the lead actress is simply wonderful in that role and hopefully we will see more of her.
Konchalovsky is a master. Much of his talent has been wasted making communist kaka, but let him control the camera and you are bound to be caught breathless with some of the shots - and that apple was reminiscent of the early Tarkovsky's one, in The Steamroller and The Violin... that simple shot alone is worth the price of the film.
The final words of the heroine's fiancé are profetic. "I am sick, and I need to be treated..."... that could as well be applied to the whole world around them.
A powerful, deeply emotional and touching, but not syrupy film that you will not see very often. I second Patrick's strong recommendation.
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