Die Farbe des Granatapfels (1969)
55KDie Farbe des Granatapfels: Directed by Sergei Parajanov. With Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan, Gogi Gegechkori. A surreal biopic of Armenian poet Sayat Nova, depicted through non-narrative amalgamations of images, hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
“The absolute u0026#39;must seeu0026#39;…no movie will ever look the same after seeing this one. This is the alphabet of understanding the art of motion pictures. Before I saw this movie, I thought that movies can be fun, sad, yearning or heart-warming, that they are entertainment for heart, mind or fantasy, that they can have some message, teach you something, that they can improve your morals, that they can hit great technical achievement, but I never realized that movies belong to the family of real arts and that they can hit into deepest,the most pure, the least understanding parts of human soul. Pictures that are changing, moving, pulsating, travel in its own rhythm with its very own sounds and music- that is the art of motion pictures, that is the art of what we call u0026quot;The Moviesu0026quot;. And what is more natural and more appealing to human kind then sense of movement, breathing, living? I can only thank to Sergei Parajanov for helping me to understand this, for opening my u0026quot;third eyeu0026quot; for movies.”
