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63 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 1/3 — Setting the Stage

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The Monk Painter - A Film Review

There's a lovely, there's a great scene in that, in that second chapter where they take shelter with all these peasants who were all in a barn watching a sort of boardy musician. It's almost the end, but he crashes into the ground, cut to a slightly slow mo shot of a horse rolling on its back. And then we meet these three monk painters trudging through a muddy landscape saying where they're going to get a job painting. Then there's a very long scene where they just like a very long shot where they're just all sitting there.

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