February 21, 2009
I'm sorry art world. I get it...but maybe you're just not for me.
Sofiko Chiaureli,
Melkon Aleksanyan,
Vilen Galstyan,
Giorgi Gegechkori,
Avet Avetisyan
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Director Sergei Paradjanov made a practice of making highly idiosyncratic films based on the folklore of regions in the former Soviet Union. In 1969 he made this film, based in part on the life of the... read more
DVD Release Date: March 8, 2005
Stats: 162 reviews
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Flixster Reviews (162)
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December 31, 2007it's beautiful and unique for sure, and I get the gist of the events in the film. I just don't really care for it. Very similar to Blood of a Poet in terms of technique and subject. Not really my type of aesthetic.
Critic Reviews
September 6, 2011
Anton Bitel, Little White Lies
August 17, 2008
Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy
An extremely honest attempt to convey abstraction in an essentially non-abstract medium. Full Review
February 21, 2008
John Patterson, L.A. Weekly
A madly beautiful, often straight-up-bonkers meditation on the life of its eponymous Armenian-Azeri balladeer and poet. Full Review
July 25, 2006
Keith Phipps, AV Club
Paradjanov scares up one startling sequence after another, crafting a bizarre mosaic of Nova's world while limiting himself to the materials of the poet's time. Full Review
March 28, 2006
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It's best appreciated as an arcane work about a great tortured artist by a great tortured artist. Full Review
August 18, 2002
Jeremy Heilman, MovieMartyr.com
As much as I can recognize the obvious effort and specific intent that went into the film, I am at a complete loss to comprehend what exactly it's trying to say to me. Full Review
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