Higher plane, as Domenico has proven after seven years’ hard work.Īs one would expect from a Tarkovsky film, water is everywhere in But pointedly, the only time Andrei looks up to the heavens is when Number of shots of Andrei or Domenico turning 180 degrees to face theĬamera, as if, mid-search, they hear something calling them. Of Russia that is the reference of nostalghia and Nostalghia.įaith is evoked by more than just long tracking shots. That exceeds the mere product of a social contract. Religion, but it also elevates the nation (if not the state) to a height Of such a close relationship as delimiting the universality of the Orthodox Church is the Moscow Patriarchate, bespeaking the close Member – wife? daughter? – with angelic wings. Subdued color of the reality sequences), we sometimes see a family Holy sites of the film, Andrei has necessarily left Russia, and in theįrequent scenes of longing for home that crop up throughout the film (shotīy Giuseppe Lanci in black and white, as opposed to the bleached and Talking about faith in fact, the two are linked. I began by saying the film is about Russian nostalghia, yet here I am,
In the same tracking shot, still apparently stationary. In-frame quickly run around the camera once it’s left them to show up later Imbuing the film with a sense of seeking however, expectations of findingĪnything are often uncannily subverted by having actors who are stationary Similar parallel tracking shots of the two spiritual men, also long takes, Of mission, longing, journey, and even pilgrimage.
Shooting it as a parallel tracking shot gives it a sense
He finally succeeds with his dying breath.įamously, the candle sequence comprises three attempts in oneīreath-stopping take nearly ten minutes long, unequivocally marking it asĪn act of faith. To Tuscany to complete a task assigned him by Domenico: carry a lit candleįrom one end of a now-empty mineral bath pool to the other without letting Public monument before immolating himself, while Andrei returns from Rome Supposedly a few days later, Domenico gives a millenarian speech atop a Understand Andrei, let alone Domenico, feels scorned and leaves. Thinks he understands Domenico, goes to have a chat Eugenia, who can’t Transformed from his Bergman days), a local madman who locked hisįamily up for seven years in anticipation of the apocalypse. They meet Domenico (Erland Josephson, completely When alone), and ostensible romantic companion (though he shows little He knows more than a little Italian), guide (though he seems to do fine Tuscany researching a Russian composer who spent some formative time there.Īccompanying him is Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano), his interpreter (though So I direct you to an unsurpassed theological close reading by Ian Maxton Here’s the entirety of the plot I won’t concentrate on it in this piece,
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