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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. Aug 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
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. Mar 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
In this overwhelmingly beautiful movie, a sad, short, brutalized life is elevated to ecstatic myth. Oct 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. Jun 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.
There are hallucinatory sequences in Sergei Paradzhanov's 1964 film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors when this eruptively colorful movie feels more like a folkloric tapestry sprung to life than a film about flesh-and-blood people. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 5/5
There are hallucinatory sequences in Sergei Paradzhanov's 1964 film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors when this eruptively colorful movie feels more like a folkloric tapestry sprung to life than a film about flesh-and-blood people.
Stephen Holden
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is one of those rare films that look totally fresh and uncorrupted -- as if the director hadn't pilfered a thing from other film makers but had simply discovered the camera, and how best to use it, by himself. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is one of those rare films that look totally fresh and uncorrupted -- as if the director hadn't pilfered a thing from other film makers but had simply discovered the camera, and how best to use it, by himself.
Edward Guthmann
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. Dec 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. Nov 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 Sep 25, 2009 | Full Review…
The fervid pageantry is like experiencing the medium with virgin eyes
Fernando F. Croce
Ripples with the force of nature. Sep 9, 2008 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
Ripples with the force of nature.
Dennis Schwartz
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. Feb 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
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