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Title: Not a Movie in the Traditional Sense
Review: Don't expect plot, character development, and all the rest. I first saw this movie in college and was captivated by the way Paradzhanov used the film medium to "convey" (not tell, really) a story through a series of tableaux vivants. In fact, I was so captivated that I fell asleep about half-way into the movie. We had a lecture _after_ the movie by an Armenian professor explaining the imagery and motifs, but it would have helped to know all that _before_ the movie started, to have some kind of mental framework to help guide me through the movie. Still, the movie stands up to multiple viewings, and gets better as you remember things and can anticipate the development that there is. It's a successful experiment, but not one that has been successfully reproduced, that I know of.And incidentally Armenians are not Muslims. In fact, they were they first nation to accept Christianity, in 301.
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