Columbia Pictures
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Criterion Collection)
Andrei Rublev is a monk summoned to the city by a prince to paint a church. The city is raided by the prince's brother, who has formed an allegiance with the violent Tatars, who rape and pillage the inhabitants while Rublev holes up in the church. The final part of the film involves the casting of a large bell, for which the older Rublev is barely an observer. Tarkovsky's supposed "masterpiece" is densely
packed with stunning imagery, but otherwise there is little to hold this
rambling epic together. Marred by unnecessary and extremely graphic and disturbing animal cruelty for which Tarkovsky should be ashamed.
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