My wife and I have been exploring film from various times and places. She tends to prefer actiony/adventury films that aren’t bleak while I am insufferable and maudlin, adoring self indulgent wallowing moodiness.

She found the rate of cuts of man with a movie camera too offputting, and has ruled out stalker because it’s relentlessly depressing. Aside from dead season which isn’t good but is funny because of history, and come and see which I wont be traumatising her with I don’t know any soviet film. You weirdos might.

Any recommendations for showing the best or most interesting of? Things that are either high quality or showcase a unique character due cultural differences. It can be weird!

  • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Would she be interested in Sergei Eisenstein?

    • The Strike: A silent movie about workers striking at a factory. It has some cinematography that is way beyond it’s time
    • Battleship Potemkin: If you are into prevention films you have to watch this silent move about a mutiny at a tsarist battleship, simply because it has been referenced in so many other works.
    • Alexander Nevsky: This one is a talkie. It is a period drama about the medieval fight to kick the Teutonic Order (here used as a barely hidden historical standin for the Nazis) out of Russia. It had a huge budget and is kind of famous for the reenactment of a grand battle on a frozen lake.