Andrei Rublev (1966)

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Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history... (imdb)

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Directed By: Andrei Tarkovsky

Written By: Andrey Konchalovskiy, Andrei Tarkovsky

Starring: Rolan Bykov, Nikolay Grinko, Yuriy Nikulin, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Yuriy Nazarov, Mikhail Kononov, Nikolai Burlyayev, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grabbe, Irma Raush, Stepan Krylov, Nikolai Sergeyev

Genres: Drama, War, History, Biography

AKAs: Andrej Roebljov, Andrey Rublyov

Country: Soviet Union

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Stars	User	Rating
6	MartinTeller	38 _5th
There's some amazing shots in the film. And I like Boriska and his story. But almost everything before him is dull. Tarkovsky somehow manages to make even a brutal pillaging look boring. I don't care at all about Rublev or his religious struggles or his guilt or his artistic blah blah. This is the kind of thing Bergman does far more elegantly in less than half the time. It's also a tad confusing at times, which is to be expected when almost every main character is "that guy with the beard."
5	Hawkins	64 _33rd
You know how when a movie is based on a book you haven't read you still expect it to make sense? I feel that way about the Bible sometimes. What I got generally was an artist despairing while masons and carpenters labor around him, making flying machines and huge wood stockpiles and buildings. A giant bell mold becomes a crucible where faith transforms into miracle. But sweet white baby Jesus the final shot of the trinity icon is so interminable it leaves me exasperated instead of inspired.
4	PeaceAnarchy	75 _44th
A beautiful movie that gave me a lot to think about. The acting is strong, the visuals stunning, and the start and end are quite fun. The middle, however, drags and lasts nearly 2 hours. The characters are sometimes hard to distinguish, the episodic nature of the story keeps the film somewhat lively but also makes it harder to follow and all the religious talk fell flat on me. Basically I appreciate the hell out of it, I might even go so far as to say I liked it, but I didn't enjoy it much.
3	jimmynmu	2 _0th
boringggggggggggggggggggggg
3	Farzan	99 _99th
Wow. Andrei Rublev is the best film I've seen in a while. It is extremely long (about 3 and a half hours), but the great pacing and the constant beautiful imagery keeps you mesmerized throughout all of it. Andrei Rublev is full of great images and symbolism, most of which represent religon, and has many beautiful lines that will make your jaw hit the floor. Rublev is filled with slow moving scenes, as well as fast paced chaotic scenes that will change the mood often. A very rare film experience.
3	Stain	30 _20th
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3	ktappe	55 _23rd
On one hand I appreciated this film as insight into Russian art history and culture. On the other hand, it's painfully long and could easily have been trimmed to 50% or less of the epic length it encompasses. Unless the viewer is already as enthralled with the subject matter as the makers were, they will not be comfortable sitting through this. As such, this is not recommended for general audiences or even film students--probably best only for Russian- or art-historians.
3	KasperL	70 _65th
Many parts are quite extraordinary. The POV opening: very good. The action throughout: beautifully done. I even liked the slower, more meditative scenes. Nothing can excuse the last hour. Completely eschewing everything that went before it, Tarkovsky suddenly decides to chronicle the production of a bell! The very end isn't my idea of a good joke, either. In fact, having just spent over 3 hours of my life, I considered it an insult. So I recommend you turn it off when the annoying girl shows up.
2	Nathan S	4 _74th
On man's capacity for cruelty (and horse's, for that matter). Violence and filth, punishment and misery. To suffer and, for the enlightened, to endure. Andrei is a companion of the same year's Balthazar. It is clear that this is a towering, ringing, singular achievement, but in truth it's one for which my appreciation is mostly academic rather than devout.
2	monclivie	80 _71st
Thank god for the plot summary on Wikipedia.
2	Obdurate	80 _66th
It was a beautifully shot film with nice cinematography. It's loosely based on the 15th century Orthodox icon painter, Andrei Rublev, and the setting is wonderful. Really convincing medieval scenery. Religious imagery isn't heavy handed. Even if you're an atheist I think you could appreciate it. The movie also asks some important questions, along with examining how an artist deals with the times. Even though I wasn't as entertained by it as I could have been, it's still masterfully done. See it
2	arkadia	81 _69th
Not really a movie about Andrei Rublev or his art as much as it is a meditation on being an artist, with heavy political and autobiographical references. Too bad, I find Tarkovsky commenting on Tarkovsky to be dull. Still, I have to admit he's got talent with a camera.
2	M_A	91 _97th
The last chapter is simply breathtaking.
2	wetwillies	90 _80th
You never even seeing him painting. Doesn't seem like such a great painter to me.
2	bolivar	70 _54th
while there are some glimpses of tarkovskys future one of a kind camera work, the plot simply does nothing to intrigue me. actually, ivans childhood was made before this, making the camera work here less fantastic in comparison. overly long would be an understatement. biggest disappointment of tarkovskys entire catalogue.
2	Rufam	60 _29th
Moody, philosophical and dull, as one can expect from Tarkovsky. There are some adequately interesting conflicts on religion here (particularly in the first half) and the cinematography can be jaw-dropping. But I simply can't invest in a story -for 3 1/2 hours no less- where the pathos seems so staged and superficial (Nikolay Burlyaev's performance being a possible exception). Ultimately, its grandiose final montage leaves little impact -"Andrey Rublyov" strikes me as a cold sort of beauty.
2	Syntheseizur	69 _26th
The best aspect of the film is the cinematography: the locations are gorgeous and it's just one of those films where ever shot is absolutely perfectly framed and organized. The rest of the film is slow, complicated and scattered, which is of course par for the course for Tarkovsky, but I think he meets his tipping point here. The only scenes that I found truly engaging were those involving Kirill, but unfortunately this is a minor section of the film. The worst parts of the film drag on forever.
2	IeuanDP	90 _92nd
Andrei Rublev isn't so much a portrait of his life, but more an insight into people struggling against life's moral and religious demands for the sake of pursuing art. A couple of the acts feel a bit unnecessary, but I suppose they contribute something towards immersing you in that particular zeitgeist, or at least Tarkovsky's personal vision of it. The final act with Boriska (Nikolai Burlyayev, who's as precocious as he is in Ivan's Childhood) is so fraught with agony, and easily the best.
2	dardan	95 _98th
(Based on and review for part 1:) You'll get much more out of it if you approach it as it were a black comedy, with the reason being that it largely is a black comedy. From apathetically and ruthlessly assaulting people for minor infractions such as dancing and being happy to hypocritcally condemning those who celebrate love while voyeuristically spying on them, this most of all functions as a bleak satire.
1	djross	78 _89th
Perhaps twenty years since I saw this, and the score is not certain. My recollection is that it seemed to capture the feeling of the 15th century as a time of strangeness, ignorance, cruelty and fear, but that the last section about the bell somehow undermined this and perhaps became a Tarkovskian variation on socialist realism, with a Christian, artistic inflection. Other people seem to like that section best, so I cannot say that my recollections are to be in any way trusted. Poor horse.
1	TedDedon	97 _97th
The length and pacing combined with the beautiful imagery is literally stunning. There are so many scenes in the film that are breathtaking and memorable. Andrei Rublev is an epic of the grandest proportions. It's a marvel in the truest form.
1	Spunkie	40 _24th
I felt alienated from the movie despite the amazing imagery and some moments of truth. Neither the characters, not the setting or Tarkovski's very personal reasoning about Rublev was enough to get my anticipation.
1	muutanet	83 _88th
Beautifully done epic story of Russian history, (iconic) art history and a strugle with one's belief. But the story is very hard to follow; it takes a lot of attention to get the best out of it. Very meaninful message. Tension of the story grows towards the end. One of the best Russian history flicks I've seen recently.
1	purgatos	80 _72nd
There's some fantastic camera work on display and some of the characters' religious struggles are quite interesting. However, it's slow even by Tarkovsky's standards and the story was pretty muddled.
1	Bmunise	100 _97th
Gradual and subconscious. You only see its greatness if you take a step back and don't focus on the brushstrokes.
1	sellis	95 _96th
Feels so much shorter than 3+ hours long. Maybe the best sound design of all Tarkovsky’s career. Some astounding sequences : the pagan sexcapade, the raid, the creation of the bell. And the jaw dropping opening. Transcendent filmmaking
1	inhmn	100 _99th
very strong poetry - visionary and philosophical ! Great opening and twice greater end. The whole "Bell" chapter is like something beyond this world
1	yesistasty	100 _99th
As far as I'm concerned, this is the most that can be done within this medium. The benchmark against which I judge every other film. Movement, time, history, inspiration, love, hatred. All fully represented on film. No wasted moment.
1	Bown	80 _55th
At least two chapters are masterpiece-level, and the composition throughout is some of the greatest of all time. But so much of it feels too opaque, the chapters too disconnected to properly tell the story of a life. I also don’t find Rublev himself to be a very compelling character - I found myself frequently frustrated with him more than anything else. When this movie works, it soars. I just felt like a lot of it was nowhere near the level of Tark’s best.
1	Judo Koala	50 _12th
Very, very little of this film resonates with me, and the cinematography--one of the aspects to most look forward to in a Tarkovsky film--is perhaps some of the most uninspired he's done. The second half of this film assuages the first half's dreadfully torpid pace but, all the same, I simply struggled to become whatsoever invested in the narrative and, more crushingly for a Tarkovsky film, in the imagery. Can't ever see myself watching this again. Ever.
1	Totoro.	100 _99th
The best film of all time.
1	deaddilly	100 _99th
The Real Artist - A massive study examining only the passages of time between creation. The creative voids opened by suffering, violence, and faithlessness/faithfulness around and inside of Andrei. A 3 hour contemplative war between true sacrifice and creative obligation. As ambitious, empathetic, and impressive as cinema is capable of being.
1	svenerik	90 _89th
The bell scene is great.
1	AICHE	87 _95th
As dull as it is mind-blowing.
1	Cinema_Asia	100 _99th
Rublev is more about the times of Andrei Rublev's life devoid of biographical speculation about the person. The film is split into influential events that occur in Rublev's time. There are 3 notable "chapters" which cement this film as a masterpiece in my eyes..The pagan ritual in "The Holiday", the sacking of Vladimir by Tatars in "The Raid", and the casting of the bell "The Bell". There is a rawness and honest ambition that goes along with Tarkovsky's style that is just surreal and beautiful.
1	glumpy_99	87 _76th
Spectacularly mounted epic has many stunning images and arresting sequences, especially thanks to Tarkovsky’s sedate, though laser-focussed eye behind the camera which allows the viewer to slowly and gradually drink in the enormous scale and detail of the world (and journey) he has created. So overwhelming as a totality that you can forgive a second hour which almost succumbs to sleepiness, before pulling everything together for the “bells” finale, done on a scale which would make Herzog proud!
1	Bagger	85 _93rd
I don't get the people that don't care for the Bell-part. In my opinion thats where the entire story comes together and ultimately becomes worthwhile, and I just love the young boy in that part, hes brilliant.
1	DavidThomson	90 _80th
How would they have made films in Russia in the fifteenth century? It seems to me that Andrei Tarkovsky was as much fascinated by such questions as by the difficulty of knowing for sure what the painter Rublev did or what he was like. Obsessed with rain and fire, saintliness and abandon, the film is a celebration of a pagan age when no cause or claim has authority. Tarkovsky's epic stance reveals his single handicap: the lack of humor and the way in which that slows his grinding pace.
1	90sCoffee	65 _23rd
Has the look of a good movie but the feel of a boring one. Tarkovsky's other work has more purpose in its philosophical ramblings or slow camerawork but in this one, everyone is just rambling and everything is tedious. Inexcusably thin despite the long length and an interesting premise/character.
1	christof	45 _10th
3 and a half hours, if you watch the original edit which I'm not against in principle...just that Tarkovskys pace is soo slow, it feels like 6. Don't be intimidated by experts who wear these grueling experiences as a badge of honour: As Frank Zappa said 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty.'
1	peyrin	60 _32nd
At over twice the runtime, Andrei Rublev isn't as immediately visually or thematically arresting as Ivan's Childhood, but when Tarkovsky hits those highs it's undeniably beautiful. I can't believe he threw a horse down a flight of stairs.
1	doyler29	100 _96th
Tarkovsky captures some of the deepest and fundamental truths about life in his film about the 15th century Russian icon painter. In the first 2/3 of the film, he captures the terror, sadness and hypocrisy of life, and then vividly shows why we carry on anyway in the sublime final hour. One of the very best films ever made.

Average Percentile 76.88% from 1936 Ratings