Russian Ark; SHIP OF STATE

From: Pittsburgh City Paper | Date: April 30, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

At nearly the very end of the dream of history that is Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark, a gowned young woman departing an 18th-century ball trips on a marble staircase. She's part of a flushed, happy throng of well-bred revelers, but though her stumble takes only a passing moment, it is hard to miss: It happens right in front of Sokurov's camera, which is descending the stairs with her. So you suspect the filmmaker choreographed that stumble, and not only because the whole of Russian Ark is so brazenly, beautifully, obviously choreographed. It's also because he's planting a touch of ...

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