Giorgi Gegechkori, Melkon Aleksanyan, Sofiko Chiaureli
Eighteenth-century Armenian poet Sayat Nova parlayed his influence as a performer in Heraclius II's court to foster peace between Russia and its neighbors. This biopic follows his life from humble car...( read more
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Directed by: Sergei Paradjanov, Sergei Parajanov
Release Date: October 6, 1980
DVD Release Date: March 8, 2005
Stats: 123 reviews
it's beautiful and unique for sure, and I get the gist of the events in the film. I just don't really care for it. Very similar to Blood of a Poet in terms of technique and subject. Not really my type of aesthetic.
I'm sorry art world. I get it...but maybe you're just not for me.
WEB. Retadora pero fascinante e increíblemente hermoso vuelo de pájaro sobre la vida de un poeta, pero en un lenguaje puramente pictórico y poético. Acumula un gran impacto. / Challenging but fascinating and incredibly beautiful bird's eye view of the life of a poet, but in a pur...( read more)
The brilliance of this film is hard to believe. I don't think there ever has or will ever be a film as original as this. To watch this film is like living in an Art Gallery for a month. I have lost count at the amount of times I have watched this film. Do your eyes and soul a fav...( read more)
I really adore this film and would like to have it play continuously forever. An outstanding piece of film where the discovery of the images is a substantial and much more convincing way of showing the world how a poet, an artist makes its forms and this film, by its focus on the...( read more)
Among 'poetical' films - meaning no plot or sense in particular scenes - this one is quite watchable and interesting in it's way. This is also because it's not excessively long.
A bunch of dialogue-less images thrown together without plot or action. Avoid at all cost if you you value your film sanity.
Rather than the life's story of a poet, they show his soul's and mind's story.
Essentially plotless, this film goes in a stream-of-consciousness sort of way, seeming to follow through the mind of someone looking back.
Each scene, each frame, is dense with lyrical symbolism that I...( read more)
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At the very beginning, what was that text? There were no subtitles there, so I'd just like to know what the introductory thing before the title means.
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