Andrei Rublev

Pros: Gorgeous, painterly cinematography; visually and intellectually stimulating; often rated one of the top-ten films all-time
Cons: Long; lacks traditional narrative design; realistic, gory violence

If you approach a viewing of Andrei Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev as you would an ordinary film, you are bound to be frustrated and disappointed. You may have difficulty following the "plot," and you'll probably find it slow paced and terribly long ...

Pros: Acting, cinematography
Cons: Bleak, brutal and depressing

In an interview featured on the DVD of Andrei Rublev –the bleak biopic about the life of the 15th-century Russian iconographer and monk- director Andrei Tarkovsky explains the gratuitous depiction of trauma and tragedy in his landmark film. ...

Pros: cinematography, direction, sets, story, challenging
Cons: much violence, lengthy, sometimes slow, characters sometimes hard to distinguish

The story goes that Andrei Rublev was to be filmed for the 50th Anniversary of the 1917 Russian revolution. But Andrei Tarkovsky's lengthy, difficult movie was not what Soviet officials had in mind. It was withheld from release until 1969, and...

Pros: movie for thought - not a screening of cool production effects
Cons: scenes of cruelness - some parts are hard to watch, some hard to understand

"The Passion According to Anrei: Andrei Rublev" historically realistic movie that it heavy in some parts but very enlightening in others. What is so amazing about this movie is that it tells a story of a World so very different from our own. It took me 5 ...

Pros: The film is more daring than you would expect Brezhnev-era censors to have permitted.
Cons: Horse symbolism is incomprehensible; who's the balloonist?

When watching a movie about 15th-century Russia - most of it set in the town of Vladimir, about 110 miles northeast of Moscow - it's unimaginable that the main character would fail to ask questions about God and whether He is good and whether His being...