Sergei Paradjanov: Retrospective for a Visionary The eccentric view of a Soviet-era oddball genius by Tom Birchenough "Despite the highest plaudits from other European masters, from the likes of Jean-Luc Godard (“In the temple of cinema, there are images, light and reality. Sergei Paradjanov was the master of that temple”), and his Italian contemporaries - from Fellini and Bertolucci to many others, who described him collectively on his death as a “magician” in cinema - his name has often remained somehow on the margins." "The colour and richness in his great films that draw the viewer in, effective submergence in a highly visual and musical canvas - with images that often have a symmetry and sense of what Paradjanov called “motionlessness” - owe more to the East than to the West. He always resisted any critical judgment that termed his works only “national” films, downplaying what others would called their ethnographic elements, in favour of their universal quality." Read more at: theartsdesk/film/sergei-paradjanov-retrospective-visionary
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:25:30 +0000
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