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Tini zabutykh predkiv (1965)
colour,music,romeo&juliet
this film once seen is unforgettable,from the opening shot i knew i was in for something special,i wasn't let down on that score. the characters seem to leap of the screen in affect the film is alive. romeo & juliet in the carpathians a love story of children as adults as the people really are children,swirling hand held camera,unnatural colours,beautiful chromatic photography to set the tone of despair, paradjanov uses every trick in the book &then some.wonderful music & a sense of the times these people lived,the customs,clothes,religous iconography all come together in a wonderful film.one of my all time favourites.from a master.
Sayat Nova (1969)
image,music,feeling
sayat nova (colour of pomegranates)is i believe one of the supreme masterpieces of cinema.from the opening title the music (armenian blues)? the beautiful images,the study of the life & death of the poet, is unforgettable,it does not matter if one knows no little about the subject of medieval armenian poetry.those ravishing scenes of beautiful people gliding across the screen are so moving & that music!for a film to be a masterpiece it is not necessary to understand it just fall under the spell of a film like no other ,paradjanov was a genius.