In Skazka, Alexander Sokurov weaves digital magic to create a phantasmagorical vision of the Afterlife, worthy of Dante. But wait: are we in the limbo of Purgatory, or a paradoxical Paradise reserved for notorious men of world history? Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and more: all are present and accounted for. Since they exist only as archival media images, each figure comes in a serial set. In the blackest of political comedies, these fallen men beg, in turn, to be let through Heaven’s Gate – but the angels who peek through never open wide. Little wonder, as the former leaders wander listlessly, bitching (in a Babel of multiple languages) about each other’s clothes, hair and hygiene. In what is effectively a work of animation, Sokurov has pulled together many talents into an extraordinary technological feat. It blends pictorial elements from art history to form an endlessly unfolding landscape, replete with fog and ghostly armies of the sacrificed victims of history. Announced as Sokurov’s last film, Skazka is an inspired riff on the high culture of Peter Greenaway mixed with the low culture of mash-up artists Soda_Jerk. Can we now expect some entrepreneur to bring us the interactive Skazka video game?
A heroic story about firefighters and rescuers. What we call an act of bravery is just a usual routine for them, if only one can get used to mortal danger and extreme risk. When people in distress seem to have nobody who may help them, rescuers come to fight against merciless forces of nature.
俄國文豪果戈里短篇《鼻子》與作曲家蕭士塔科維奇同名歌劇結合,第一幕是軍 官尋找大鼻子的荒謬故事,第二幕戲謔史太林與作家布爾加科夫的嘻嘻關係,第 三幕緬懷被處決的敢言藝術家與科學家,追憶不畏極權的先烈。歌劇《鼻子》曾 被史太林禁演,七十年代解封,動畫大師哥沙諾夫斯基(《DAU. 娜塔莎之劫》導 演的父親)耗時半世紀,包羅蘇俄文學、音樂和政治,融會多種動畫技藝。其氣 魄之大,嘲諷之強,無愧為結合劇情、傳記、滑稽劇和音樂劇的前衛動畫鉅作。
蒙面义警的杀戮使城市陷入混乱,只有一名反叛警察和他的新人拍档能阻止这场混乱。