Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
323.857.6000
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The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
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Friday Feb 29, 2008 (7:30pm)
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$9
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In The Color of Pomegranates, radical Russian director Sergei Paradjanov evokes the life of 18th-century Armenian poet Sayat Nova through breathtaking, art-house abstraction. Figures appear as pancake-makeup apparitions, wind rustles rows of open books, and time passes like blood seeping slowly into fabric. To "recreate the poet's inner world," Paradjanov deploys a montage of gnomic title cards, multiple voice-overs, and stationary 2-D shots dense with Byzantine detail. And considering that Color was the director's final film before being sentenced to nearly five years of gulag life, its escapist tone is all the more poignant.
