Called here Violin and Roller or The Steamroller and the Violin, Katok i skripka is an early film by Andrei Tarkovsky, to whose script (from a story by S. Bakhmetyeva) Andrei Konchalovsky contributed. This film school graduation project is primarily about the friendship that develops between Sergei, a young steamroller operator, and 7-year-old Sasha, whose […]
Daily Archives: May 26, 2007
Paris, 1946; the war is over. Albert and wife Léa have brought together tailors and seamstresses, almost all of whom are other Jewish survivors. An aim of their business is to stitch together their own torn lives. In the quarters of the tailoring business, the dummy somehow becomes a symbol of the Holocaust about which […]
At three and a quarter hours, Veer-Zaara comes to us at a formidable length. In his seventies, its maker, Yash Chopra, is in no mood to rush anything. He has lessons to preach: equity between Indian Hindus and Pakistani Muslims; women’s rights. He has a 22-year-long love story to tell, in which a Hindu rescue […]
A middle-class man, in a rut at home, dreams of the excitement of “the street.” One evening, foregoing dinner, he leaves wife and apartment to pursue his dream but is lured into misadventure by a prostitute. He is arrested for a murder in her apartment he did not commit. As he is about to hang […]
Dennis Grunes 