Word: visual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Film Archives at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...
...Visual Culture: Introduction to the Historical Study of Art and Architecture" will be the closest Harvard comes to an introductory arts history class...
Today, however, both these visual keynotes have been replaced by the chaos of capitalism's dikaya zhizn, or "wild life": weather-beaten babushkas who beg from filthy sidewalks, marauding bands of gypsy children, Lycra-skirted strumpets cavorting with Western businessmen, bankers tooling around town in armor-plated Mercedes, mafia moguls in sharkskin suits who dine on Maine lobster with a $238-a-bottle champagne in five-star hotels. A sense of bewilderment plagues Moscow's residents as they attempt to sort out the conflicting claims of their half-remembered, precommunist culture from the hedonistic and corrupting pull of the West...
...addition, the wonderfully stimulating filming techniques which Kieslowski employed in "Blue" disappear here. He is more interested in the story than on overindulging this reviewer's taste for the visual...
This does not mean that Kieslowski does not use his visual talent. He steps into Karol's memory on occasion, replaying his reel-to-reel vision of walking from the marriage altar and stepping into the sun with Dominique. Her kiss always ends this sequence of hazy golden light and crinolin...