Andrei Rublev

The most profound movie I’ve ever seen.  The leap of quality from Ivan’s childhood to Andrei Rublëv is incomprehensible. Even though the story lacks a solid narrative structure due to the missing knowledge about Andrei’s life, every scene is full of allegories and morals, giving us an amazing view on the human condition and the relationship between men and faith. Throughout his life, Andrei he encounters: death, hunger, loneliness, blasphemy, betrayal , atrocities, compassion, praises, abandon, and they all have a different impact on his life. He tries to firmly grab to his fate but slowly descent into complete isolation and depression. At this point the movie completely switch focus on a new story which focus on a kid. Boris is way more charismatic as a character than Andrei, and I think his chapter is the best, but its meaning is to serve as a motive for Andrei to regain hope and to redeem himself after all the pain and loneliness he’s been through. The ending is poetical, Andrei sees in Boris his younger self, and he decides to take him under his wings, they unite in pain, while an almost mystic view of the idiot girl walks behind them. Representing the past of Andrei leaving behind to let him continue his path with god. Each chapter is very different from the other, they almost seem different movies. The first sequence is straight out of a Fellini’s movie, the nudity scene is almost magical, the Russian crucifixion is literal genius, but above all, the attack of the Tartar’s. The entire sequence is one of the greatest war sequences I’ve ever seen, standing behind Seven Samurai and very few others.