Description:One of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century, Sergei Parajanov's "The Color of Pomegranates," a biography of the Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova (King of Song) reveals the poet's life more through his poetry than a conventional narration of important events in Sayat Nova's life. We see the poet grow up, fall in love, One of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century, Sergei Parajanov's "The Color of Pomegranates," a biography of the Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova (King of Song) reveals the poet's life more through his poetry than a conventional narration of important events in Sayat Nova's life. We see the poet grow up, fall in love, enter a monastery and die, but these incidents are depicted in the context of what are images from Sergei Parajanov's imagination and Sayat Nova's poems, poems that are seen and rarely heard. Sofiko Chiaureli plays six roles, both male and female, and Sergei Parajanov writes, directs, edits, choreographs, works on costumes, design and decor and virtually every aspect of this revolutionary work void of any dialog or camera movement.... (more)(less)
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Sergei Paradjanov’s greatest film is... his most radical and obscure... the striking use of tableau-like framing recalls the shallow space of movies made roughly a century ago, while the gorgeous uses of color and the wild poetic and metaphoric conceits seem to derive from some utopian cinema of the future. - Jonathan Rosenbaum
Rosenbaum considers Shadows of the Forgotten Ancestors Paradjanov's second greatest film."
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The film is based on Sayat-Nova poems. The Armenian film directed by Sergei Parajanov follows the poet's path from his childhood wool-dying days to his role as a courtier and finally his life as a monk."
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