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

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Movie Review - Is This Really a Drama?

Tarkovsky is never he's not a greater character. But in here there is explicitly sort of fabulous. And it works kind of politically works, you know, disguised like Russia. It can be so graphical. The delirium of the dreams can become like the deliriumof the scene with these birch trees. Yeah. My memory of it was that it doesn't really have any narrative tension despite being meant to be a thriller because it's too broken up and it's too, you're too kind of unclear about where you are at a particular moment.

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