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Sanctification of an Icon Painter: Andrei Rublev (1966)

Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast

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The Importance of Reading a Plot Summary

I think that to say that it was more comprehensible in the second viewing is not in itself, you know, a reason to try to equip yourself ahead of time to render the first viewing more comprehensible. So I also want to push back on what this other friend did in reading a plot summary ahead of time as a way of preparing for the film. The whole project of the film precisely isn't focused, I would argue, on plot. And the whole project is to engender something else that all of these pieces, they all converge ultimately toward that end. It's very easy to like not know what characters you're looking at and like when they are characters who have appeared on screen

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