Andrei Rublev (Andrey Rublyov) (Andrej Rubljow)

"What is praised today is abused tomorrow. They will forget you, me, everything." I am utterly incapable of writing a review for this film, so I am not even going to try. It would be a disservice to the film, and to Tarkovsky. This is what I like to refer to as…

Eli Hayes

Seven episodes in the life of the titular medieval Russian icon painter, all of which add up to one of the most vivid and detailed cinematic depictions I've ever seen of the life of an artist. From naive optimism about human nature to an abject despair that leads him to…

Kenji Fujishima

***One of the best 150 films I have ever seen.*** Thanks to the power and humanism of a gripping anti-war manifesto called Ivanovo Detstvo (1962) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, his next epic project Andrey Rublyov had a considerable amount of high expectations from the…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

All I knew going into this was that it was about an artist/monk. Perhaps I'm just grasping for meaning here, but the ending certainly suggested it might well be about filmmaking a bit, too. As Boris slowly backs away from his triumph at the end and breaks down, as the…

Sally Jane Black

This is my first Andrei Tarkovsky movie and I was a bit disappointed. I understand that it is one of the best movies ever made and it is a sin to rate it lower than 5 stars, but I just didn’t like the movie that much.  The movie was very well made and Tarkovsky is without a…

Mads Ej

how and why the artist has to confront the politics of his time, but to also stay true to the spirit of himself and his age -- to translate and transfigure the world. to exist between god's forgiveness and your own torment is not a knowledge you can possess, but a…

comrade_yui

Religion has always been foreign to me. I’ve never had faith in any organised teaching or found virtue in the actions of religious groups. This is perhaps why I find films like Andrei Rublev so enticing. Depictions of people living their lives based on a belief system I…

Darren Carver-Balsiger

Early 15th-century Rus’ a land caught between the dying embers of Mongol overlordship and the rising aspirations of a Moscow-centered power. Shadows of the past loom, the Mongol-Tatar yoke, once iron-tight since the 13th century, has frayed, giving way to hazy murmurs of…

noen

Really not much I can say, Andrei Rublev is a film meant to be lived, not watched, let alone read or listened. Tarkovsky was way ahead of his time, even until now in the 21st century we are still barely catching up to his artistry. His omnipotent camera dances around with…

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