i like how the pears resembled newborns heads in the end of the film

i like how the pears resembled newborns heads in the end of the film

Technically impressive and visually beautiful, though I wasn't particularly into the story regardless of my perspective on the themes and its status as propaganda.

Technically impressive and visually beautiful, though I wasn't particularly into the story regardless of my perspective on the themes and its status as propaganda.

The soil breathes, indifferent to revolution. Men come and go — with their tools, their dreams, their quarrels — but the land remains. More elemental than political, Earth feels like a hymn to the unchanging rhythm of life and death beneath the sky.

The soil breathes, indifferent to revolution. Men come and go — with their tools, their dreams, their quarrels — but the land remains. More elemental than political, Earth feels like a hymn to the unchanging rhythm of life and death beneath the sky.

Entirely recontextualizes Dorsky's films from being just 'pretty experimental films,' to more process driven works of art. Not to say that they aren't beautiful, because they are, but Dovzhenko shoots these Dorsky-like scenes with the goal of informing the viewer of the process taking place, not just that saying that 'the apples look pretty in the rain' (even though they do). And seeing Dovzhenko film his subjects in this way lightens up that gray area I had in some of Dorsky's films, and expands their ideologies past the idea of being plainly gorgeous films

Entirely recontextualizes Dorsky's films from being just 'pretty experimental films,' to more process driven works of art. Not to say that they aren't beautiful, because they are, but Dovzhenko shoots these Dorsky-like scenes with the goal of informing the viewer of the process taking place, not just that saying that 'the apples look pretty in the rain' (even though they do). And seeing Dovzhenko film his subjects in this way lightens up that gray area I had in some of Dorsky's films, and expands their ideologies past the idea of being plainly gorgeous films

Maybe the best edited film. Up there with A Page of Madness, Persona, and All That Jazz on that front alone. Also the absolute hardest movie ever. Accompanied by an amazing live piano score courtesy of Judith Rosenberg.

Maybe the best edited film. Up there with A Page of Madness, Persona, and All That Jazz on that front alone. Also the absolute hardest movie ever. Accompanied by an amazing live piano score courtesy of Judith Rosenberg.