Friday, March 26, 2010

War and Peace (part 4)

Russia

The final episode contained a brilliant depiction of the burning of Moscow...just stunningly staged, shot and directed. I doubt anything to equal this has ever been done.

After this though the film came unglued. Disparate sequences wrapped up the story but they were so jumbled up he lost my attention. Too bad. He should have moved back to the human interest thread and brought the film to an emotionally satisfying conclusion.

So...a bit of a disappointment but this nearly 7-hour film remains a masterwork...and up there in the ranks of world cinema.

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