The Nose or Conspiracy of Mavericks
Nos ili zagovor netakikh
Could that really be: Marlen Khutsiev’s 1960s banned milestone llych’s Gate screening as in-flight entertainment?! Mark the moment one gets to see Andrei Tarkovsky being slapped for sardonically wondering about the praise-worthiness of turnips. A moment to remember in this gorgeous potpourri that combines animation and opera to chronicle the Russian 20th century. On the plane, classics of Soviet cinema unspool on the monitors, while two gentlemen discuss Gogol’s proto-surrealist 1836 novella The Nose and what it means to be civilized today.
Set to the score of Shostakovich’s eponymous 1920s opera, animation legend Khrzhanovsky brings us on his stridently post-modernist path of narrative anti-drive, all digression with nary a plot, all cheek and panache. Ideas, anecdotes and even some insights into the human heart carefully disguised as jokes, create a gem from the future and the past, a groundbreaking requiem for the Russian avant-garde.
Film details
- Country of production
- Russia
- Year
- 2020
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 89"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
You may also like this
-
In Pieces
One man, two lovers, in the same apartment and yet oceans apart from each other. Paranoia is the name of the game.
-
Communism and the Net or the End of Representative Democracy
A comparison of two popular uprisings, the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution, by film essay giant Karel Vachek.
-
About Endlessness
In his characteristic style, Andersson at his existential, succinct best: everything that makes life human, in an hour and fifteen minutes.