Clean the surface and apply filler where necessary. Remove any old paint or wallpaper that is coming off. Make sure the surface is smooth and clean Towards the end of his career, Tarkovsky began to question the rigid criteria he used in shooting a film in a way he felt won purity and aschewed the vulgar and trivial, but I think he got it right here. The doves being released in the church, and the light filtering through a stream of water in a gutted house.
But there are also some vividly beautiful moments. Perhaps he reaches the parts other directors cannot reach.
As it's Tarkovsky you don't burst out laughing. Also there is a brief and bizarre shot of an angel stomping around outside a house. There are many eccentric aspects to this film, for instance the Russian wandering around up to his waist in water. The problem with this film is that the lead character was not really in exile and could go home anytime, unlike Tarkovsky himself, so why was he in so much pain? Is it mere homesickness as opposed to the real longing for one's homeland rightly belonging to the truly disenfranchised? But perhaps that is not the issue, more that when man finds himself and true wisdom, is it too late in the day for him to use what he has learned? The self sacrifice of the old man is a return to an old theme of Tarkovsky's that perhaps only shame can save mankind. The scene where the Russian lies on his hotel bed and his nostalgia conjurs up his dog in a dream like but also tangibly real manner is powerful and haunting. Even the animals seem willing to be directed, a dog staring straight into the camera with an almost unearthly and uncanny presence and stillness. It's strange, but nature seems to perform for Tarkovsky. The way his characters and objects seem to float in and out of frame is amazing.
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The camera seems to turn a full 360 degrees although you don't notice it. Tarkovsky's brilliance as a director is well illustrated in the film where the Russian and the old man talk in a room. The Italians didn't take to this film as it did not film Italy in a vibrant manner, preferring to evocate the alienation and melancholia of it's Russian lead. Perhaps it was due to cultural traditions in Tarkovsky's background rather than deliberate misogyny. She is made to look rather absurd in the film, but in truth, so do the male characters. Certainly there was some accusations of a reactionary attitude to women, for at the start of the film a priest tells the guide that she should sacrifice herself for the sake of raising children.
She flashes a tit in erotic frustration which is unusual for Tarkovsky, he seems unwilling to really engage in issues of sexuality, preferring them to be chaste in an almost victorian manner. In fact, the female lead falls for him and is exasperated by his absurd interest in a local derelict. Once again it has an impossibly glamourous Russian wandering about looking moody, engrossed in the big issues. It's one of the great films of cinema, although certainly rather odd. But for some reason I don't find it so, although there is the occasional longuer. Apparently even Tarkovsky described this film as 'tedious', so you can imagine what it's like to be on the receiving end.
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