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Sanctification of an Icon Painter: Andrei Rublev (1966)

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The Nudity of Bariska

Andre is an icon comes out most clearly to me in this sequence when he's watching bariska at work, or he's watching him rest actually. And so you see mostly bariska looking up off screen and just looking at him, just like experiencing his gaze and responding to it. It very much reminded me of Ben Hur in the scene where Christ gives Ben Hur water - a similar kind of thing. The dynamic, the emotional dynamic is not quite the same in this case, his gaze of compassion is directed towards this other kid.

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