I have just returned from the screening of this movie at Golden Apricot International Film Festival(Yerevan, Armenia) and must say that not many movies make me feel like I am feeling now...
The movie is wonderful and seems like it's mainly built on parables, some characters are really original and ingenious like Ecclesiast, Maria or Mitya... and their lives and the stories from their lives are also like parables, but these parables are so close to our time, to the Russian village... to nature... The nature that was ordered to the painter to be painted on the wall, but at the end you see that human memory, the pain for losing people and the life itself do not allow one to see the nature as it is... Yes you may have some tears on your eyes during the movie, but those tears are not melodramatic...
The movie is wonderful and seems like it's mainly built on parables, some characters are really original and ingenious like Ecclesiast, Maria or Mitya... and their lives and the stories from their lives are also like parables, but these parables are so close to our time, to the Russian village... to nature... The nature that was ordered to the painter to be painted on the wall, but at the end you see that human memory, the pain for losing people and the life itself do not allow one to see the nature as it is... Yes you may have some tears on your eyes during the movie, but those tears are not melodramatic...