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Andrei Rublev

Andrei Rublev (St Andrei Passion)

1966

Andrei Tarkovsky

Anatoly Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Sergeyev, Nikolai Grinko ...

8.0

5,960

Drama Divided in seven sections, 'Andrei Rublev' focuses on the life of the great Russian painter while taking a gaze at medieval Russia during the first quarter of the 15th century, a period of Mongol and Tatar invasions and the rise of Christianity.

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"We are meant to share the passions, sorrows and doubts that shaped the artist, but since there always seems to be more going on in the head of the film's director than in the head of the man playing Andrei, the system did not work for me."	NEG
United Kingdom	Steve Rose The Guardian	"The best arthouse film of all time (...) Tarkovsky was consciously crafting a language that owed nothing to literature, and it's a pity so few others followed him"	POS
United Kingdom	Tony Rayns Time Out	"The most brilliant coup is the story of a beardless boy saving his own life by pretending that he knows how to cast a giant bell - and finding that he can do it."	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"It's Tarkovsky's lighter touches, coupled with his majestic vision, that makes 'Andrei Rublev' such compulsive viewing some 25 years after its original release (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Elise Nakhnikian Slant	"By the end of this majestically powerful film, we don’t just understand the need for art. We feel it, as Tarkovsky applies Rublev’s icons and frescoes like a balm to our bleeding souls."	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"[It] announced the birth of a major talent; it also stuns with the sort of unexpected poetic explosions we've come to expect from Tarkovsky (...) Not to be missed."	POS
United Kingdom	Telegraph	"A dreamily beautiful reconstruction of the life of Russia’s medieval icon painter"	POS

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