Movie #129: Andrei Rublev

Movie #: 129
Movie Title: Andrei Rublev
Year Released: 1966

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Notable Cast: Anatoly Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev, Nikolai Burlyayev, Irma Raush

Short Description: The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: N/A
Empire.com: #36
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: N/A

Note: This is the highest ranking movie that only appears on Empire.com's list.



Date Watched: 5/4/2016

Grade: 1 out of 5 (Poor)

Rationale: With the exception of Intolerance (technical limitations of that movie made it difficult to watch) I’ve completed all movies on my list up to this point even if I detested them. Unfortunately I cannot say the same for Andrei Rublev. 25 minutes into this 3 hour 25 minute movie I made the decision to stop and not waste 3 more hours. The first 25 minutes felt disjointed because the movie is done in chapters with an epilogue and prologue that have nothing to do with the main part of the movie. After reading a synopsis I came to learn that deep metaphors are littered throughout the movie and I just don’t have the patience for an old, black and white, foreign movie with a storyline that bounces around and metaphors that aren’t easily explainable or understandable because of a language barrier or ignorance of the subject.