I have a terrific affection for this expansive, subtle, slow, meditative, cerebral, painstaking, gorgeous, emotional historical spiritual philosophical film. It has everything in it..... everything except an attractive premise or setting, or set of characters, or anything that makes movies attractive. This movie is everything except attractive. Nevertheless, multiple choppy critical viewings have developed in me a strong love for Andrei Rublev, probably the ugliest film of Tarkovsky's. It's definitely not something I could naturally connect with, but that was sort of the case with the now-easy and amazing Solaris and Stalker. Tarkovsky has become enjoyable.... but two viewings is absolutely necessary, and maybe months in between.
Rublev is one of my favorite movies. I love the signature shots; the painfully distant dialogue and characters; every baffling decision made by the menacingly-theoretical Tarkovsky.
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