The aim of this blog is to stimulate a dialogue without any borders between East and West, from a neutral point of view. At the basis of this interaction we will use art in its broadest sense, offering themes or just events that can be analysed. Feel free to give your opinion, feel free to express the relation between life and art, feel free to be yourself, because finally this is what it is all about.

zondag 29 maart 2009

EXILE

Nostalghia was a film by an exile: Tarkovsky in Italy, feeling his way through a new landscape, a new iconography and history. The love-hate relationship with the West, being surrounded by the West (a constant theme towards the end of his diaries, Time Within Time) translates into a film from the Russian-Italian border. The final shot, a three-minute long take, is an image of operatic incongruity: "the Russian house inside the Italian Cathedral." Maybe it is along this border that Nostalghia's Andrei, also a temporarily exiled Russian, walks with his candle. Does he walk on behalf of Tarkovsky?



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