Description:
"Russian film made by Artur Aristakisyan and recently released on region-free PAL DVD by Second Run, is divided into two parts, each preceded by silent film footage scored to the music of Giuseppe Verdi. It comprises a total of ten semi-episodic chapters, divisions that seem almost Biblical in nature and that possess an allegorical slant bordering on piousness."
A man without the bottom half of his legs who pushes himself with a rolling cart down the sidewalk. A woman who lies flat on the concrete in order to make love to Christ. A young male who stares emptily from basement steps beneath a sidewalk. A heavyset man who’s blind and who has been told by his sightless parents that everyone else is blind as well, that no one can see what he cannot.
These are the men and women the narrator (Aristakisyan) tells us about. He directs these stories to his unborn baby, as cautionary reminders of life and advice to maneuver through the monolithic “system” responsible for the societal decay he describes. The narrator makes reference to many disturbing ideas, including the likelihood that the current one-month-old fetus will soon be aborted, scraped from its mother’s womb, and that the mother and father aren’t married, even possibly that they’re siblings. He also makes a point of telling his doomed child to never listen to anyone, including the narrating father. Later, he begs the unborn child to maintain poverty and virginity at all costs, to avoid being controlled or fornicated by the “system.” It’s a pitch-black message of pessimism and paranoia. Only the poor and unloved can possibly keep their autonomy. To remain unspoiled and unbroken by society, people must rule themselves without money, material needs, or sexuality.
These ideas are very much consistent with the monologue espoused by the narrator, a manifesto of dissent and free will. Starkly anti-authority, anti-society even, the narrator’s words are spoken in a calm, deadly serious manner filled with conviction. His words repeatedly attack the powerful “system” and seem distrustful of anything resembling success or conformity. To really live, to truly understand the nature of being human, the narrator suggests, one must forgo everything society deems important and exist among the poor and ostracised. This is powerful, provocative filmmaking that transcends its medium. Far from allaying any fears or wants of its audience, Palms challenges and plays by its own rules."
by clydefro jones
entire review here:
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=66033
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Runtime: 140 + 20 (interview with director)
Language: Russian (English softsubs included in file)
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Runtime: 140 + 20 (interview with director)
Language: Russian
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