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...Hermitage museum. One single 95-minute, continuous, unedited, technologically and artistically miraculous Steady-Cam shot. And a mad genius for a director, bent on making—and remaking—Russian history. Were it not so exquisitely beautiful, Russian Ark, the latest film from Russian director Alexander Sokurov, might pale in comparison to the epic story of its own production...
...Sokurov, though he insists upon the modest nature of his project, clearly intends his film to function on the level of national myth, international wonder, and cinematic miracle. He casts The Hermitage as the biblical “ark” in which the filmmaker travels through time, history and heritage...
...Hermitage Museum in an attempt both to give us a tour of the St. Petersburg palace's artistic treasures and to encapsulate three centuries of Russian history, of the Czars and commoners who lived, worked, danced, suffered and died in those sumptuous rooms and labyrinthine corridors--but because Alexander Sokurov is as much an artist and storyteller as he is a magician-technician, viewers can forget the absurd degree of difficulty in the logistical challenge of keeping nearly a thousand extras and dozens of crew members out of the way of Tilman Buttner's high-definition digital camera and instead...