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Whatever passes before [Sergei Parajanov's] camera -- men, women, children, animals, crucifixes, candles, fire, snow -- is rendered so vividly that other films look like vague shadows by comparison. August 2, 2019 | Full Review…
Whatever passes before [Sergei Parajanov's] camera -- men, women, children, animals, crucifixes, candles, fire, snow -- is rendered so vividly that other films look like vague shadows by comparison.
Jake Wilson
Quote not available. November 17, 2011 | Rating: 5/5
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Joshua Rothkopf
It's one of the most unusual films I've seen, a barrage of images, music and noises, shot with such an active camera we almost need seatbelts. March 7, 2008 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
It's one of the most unusual films I've seen, a barrage of images, music and noises, shot with such an active camera we almost need seatbelts.
Roger Ebert
Shadows was a leap in the dark like none other in Soviet film history, and a slap in the face of the officially sanctioned and artistically vacuous school of Socialist Realism. February 21, 2008 | Full Review…
Shadows was a leap in the dark like none other in Soviet film history, and a slap in the face of the officially sanctioned and artistically vacuous school of Socialist Realism.
John Patterson
In this overwhelmingly beautiful movie, a sad, short, brutalized life is elevated to ecstatic myth. October 30, 2007
In this overwhelmingly beautiful movie, a sad, short, brutalized life is elevated to ecstatic myth.
J. Hoberman
The athletic camerawork and the bizarre visual effects take their tone from the folk ballads that recur on the soundtrack, sometimes touching an authentically barbaric or tragic poetry. June 24, 2006 | Full Review…
The athletic camerawork and the bizarre visual effects take their tone from the folk ballads that recur on the soundtrack, sometimes touching an authentically barbaric or tragic poetry.
The film's dramatisation of the urge, however quixotic and self-destructive, to return to an idealised past also serves as a sly commentary on the very real nationalistic desire of many Soviet Republics to reattain their independent cultures. December 13, 2018 | Full Review…
The film's dramatisation of the urge, however quixotic and self-destructive, to return to an idealised past also serves as a sly commentary on the very real nationalistic desire of many Soviet Republics to reattain their independent cultures.
Anton Bitel
Stylistically the film is jaw-dropping -- somewhere between the French New Wave and an acid trip. November 10, 2011 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
Stylistically the film is jaw-dropping -- somewhere between the French New Wave and an acid trip.
Ken Hanke
When Paradjanov made Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, he was experimenting with a new approach to filmmaking for the first time and the aesthetic achievement is spectacular. May 6, 2010 | Full Review…
When Paradjanov made Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, he was experimenting with a new approach to filmmaking for the first time and the aesthetic achievement is spectacular.
Eleanor McKeown
The fervid pageantry is like experiencing the medium with virgin eyes September 25, 2009 | Full Review…
The fervid pageantry is like experiencing the medium with virgin eyes
Fernando F. Croce
Ripples with the force of nature. September 9, 2008 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
Ripples with the force of nature.
Dennis Schwartz
Watching [this] breakthrough feature... reveals an undeniable sense of joy -- and even release -- in every frame. January 31, 2008 | Full Review…
Watching [this] breakthrough feature... reveals an undeniable sense of joy -- and even release -- in every frame.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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