Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Andriesh 1954

  ★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  Fairy tale isn’t my favorite gender, if you know what I mean. Also the sequences are not as incredible as in another of his movies.

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  Dumka 1957

  ★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  A regular documentary about this Ukrainian choir. Some footage outside the choir’s stage are interesting, like the Russian and Ukrainian couple singing their love as theater characters.

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  The Legend of Suram Fortress 1985

  ★★½ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  A lot of frontal shots, a very similar movie to Achik-Keribi. His first film after prison. It’s hard to understand the rambling narrative and also some shallow characters. However, there is some beautiful images, like the seer getting old.

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  Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  A Paradjanov’s masterpiece. Here you can understand why people are describing his cinema as painting. Adapting stories by Mikhlaio Kotsiubinski and mixing them with Ukrainian mythologies, Paradjanov will represent a beautiful folkloric experience. Characters here are not predictable, there is a difference between them and the main western archetypes. Also the amazing cinematography, all the incredible shots within nature, specifically in taiga’s ecosystem . A lot of colours, beautiful camera movements and contre-plongées shots. Some editing decisions reminds me Potemkin from Eisenstein.

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