UID:
kobvindex_ZLB14221689
Format:
26 Min.
Content:
HUBERT ROBERT, A FORTUNATE LIFE is a stylistic portrait of thea 18th century French painter, based on paintings exhibited in Saint Petersburg's beautiful Hermitage Museum. (Idéale Audience) In HUBERT ROBERT, A FORTUNATE LIFE, Sokurov meditates on the work of French romantic painter Hubert Robert, whose paintings of lost ruins evoke the same nostalgia and lyricism of Sokurov's own films. (Covertext)
Content:
A film "...about the painter Hubert Robert (1733-1808), who spent a long time in Italy, and whose preference was for creating ancient ruined landscapes and naturalistic portrayals of times past. He was successful with the wealthy, who bought his works from him. The camera pans across the paintings while Sokurov speaks of a happy era, when the artist was at one with the spirit of the times, and agreed with the taste of his clients. Just how far removed from us this is, is shown by pictures of a "Nô" performance which are inter-cut on the screen. No words are necessary to describe what everybody knows today." (Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen)
Note:
Russ. mit engl. Untertiteln
In:
Elegy of a voyage : [DVD Video], [S.l.], 2007, (2007)
Language:
Russian
Keywords:
Gosudarstvennyj Ėrmitaž
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Robert, Hubert
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Ruinenmalerei
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DVD-Video
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DVD-Video
Author information:
Sokurov, Aleksandr
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