Sunday 6 September 2015

Арсенал / Arsenal (1929 Aleksandr Dovzhenko & scr, ed)

Remarkable scenes and montage, perhaps most effective in opening, showing war (with some extremely sarcastic titles) and effects on those at home - particularly the various women with babies who don't belong to the fathers. Wasn't quite sure what was going on - something about revolting Ukrainians - but tough and powerful (e.g. murders of revolutionaries). Notable in its use of fast edits which bring us nearer to a subject. Most interesting moments too, like characters which seem to be frozen.

Shot by Daniil Demutsky.

Made me think of Come and See.

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