The key to Tarkovsky's stature--which seems certain to endure--is that he deliberately and very dramatically reintroduced Russia's spiritual heritage to its contemporary cinema. In doing so, he simultaneously reclaimed centuries of artistic tradition for the Russian people and repudiated the 20th-century's conventions of Soviet and social realist cinema. Tarkovksy did this, moreover, under the Soviet system, so he had to adopt a certain amount of subterfuge, yet the cinematic language he developed was not just expediently evasionary; it was, in line with the tradition it set out to revive, intentionally mystical and anti-literal.
The Return honors that example in spades. Its story is dramatically engrossing and, on a surface level, entirely comprehensible. Two boys and their long-lost dad slowly edge across the emotional barriers that separate them during an extended, on-the-road reunion. A very human situation, enacted with passion and precision (the two boys who play the sons, Vladimir Garin as Andrei, the elder, and Ivan Dobronravov as Vanya, deserve citation for their terrific work). Yet, from the beginning, every fiber of the viewer's being registers that the film is not about--or not only about--the basic narrative it relates. What, then, is it about?
The key to Tarkovsky's stature--which seems certain to endure--is that he deliberately and very dramatically reintroduced Russia's spiritual heritage to its contemporary cinema. In doing so, he simultaneously reclaimed centuries of artistic tradition for the Russian people and repudiated the 20th-century's conventions of Soviet and social realist cinema. Tarkovksy did this, moreover, under the Soviet system, so he had to adopt a certain amount of subterfuge, yet the cinematic language he developed was not just expediently evasionary; it was, in line with the tradition it set out to revive, intentionally mystical and anti-literal.
The Return honors that example in spades. Its story is dramatically engrossing and, on a surface level, entirely comprehensible. Two boys and their long-lost dad slowly edge across the emotional barriers that separate them during an extended, on-the-road reunion. A very human situation, enacted with passion and precision (the two boys who play the sons, Vladimir Garin as Andrei, the elder, and Ivan Dobronravov as Vanya, deserve citation for their terrific work). Yet, from the beginning, every fiber of the viewer's being registers that the film is not about--or not only about--the basic narrative it relates. What, then, is it about?
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