Word: sokurov
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...spot a cheating black spot at 48 minutes?) The story is about love, male bonding, regret and pop music, but the camera stunt is the main reason to stick around. And if you want a feature-length movie done in one exhilaratingly elaborate take, get Aleksandr Sokurov?s Russian...
RUSSIAN ARK. The latest film from Russian director Alexander Sokurov uses 2,000 actors and thirty-five rooms of The Hermitage museum to bring 300 years of Russian history to life. Even more astonishingly, the film is presented in one single 95 minute, continuous, unedited, technologically and artistically miraculous SteadiCam shot. Critical awe—from Roger Ebert to the Village Voice (in which it appeared on five of six critics’ top-ten lists for 2002) —has followed wherever it goes. Russian Ark screens...
...film begins with a black screen, and the voice of an anonymous filmmaker (“The Author,” whose voice is provided by Sokurov) explaining that he has just awoken after a terrible, mysterious “accident.” The audience and the Author next find themselves in 18th century Russia, being led through a museum-tour through history by another time traveler, a 19th-century Frenchman, the Marquis (Sergey Dreiden...
This philosophically significant innovation required considerable practical talent. Tilman Buttner, the Director of Photography, deserves much credit for the film’s visual success. Previously acclaimed for his work running after Lola for Tom Tykwer (in Run Lola Run), his 95 minutes of continuous Steadicam operation for Sokurov was an amazing feat of both artistic and athletic ability...
...Sokurov, however, insists that the idea of the film, if not the making of it, was simple. “I am sick of editing,” he said. “Let’s not be afraid of time.” Repeatedly in promotional materials, he asserts that he sought merely to create a film that “mirrors the flowing of time accurately,” following rules of Classical form and content...