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  Review by GrimsChild ★★★½

  I was aware that the year after production of Nostaghia finished that Tarkovsky worked on an opera for London's Royal Opera House but I had no idea this his adaptation of Boris Godunov had been filmed and commercially released. The 3+ hour opera draws obvious comparisons to Andrei Rublev with it's minute attention to detail in the period setting and with it's sprawling coverage of humanity covering every contour imaginable. This time the setting is that of a social revolution as the films Raskolinkov is used as a figure of revolution while nearly all his previous films are surfacely apolitical. It's a welcome change and the main reason I prefer it to Rublev as that film's allegory for grandiose set-pieces…

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  Review by Luiz Rafael ★★★

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  MARATONA ANDREI TARKOVSKY 11/13

  Aqui já não é um filme, mas tem toda uma história. Se trata de uma ópera, retratando um momento da história russa, onde um homem Boris Godunov matou o herdeiro legítimo do trono russo, se tornando assim, o novo rei, e por aí se desenrola a história.
  É um espetáculo muito bem apresentado, figurinos incríveis, mas confesso não ser muito fã de peças teatrais e coisas do tipo, mas consigo ver as qualidades que ela tem. Inclusive, foi filmado durante o colapso da União Soviética.

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  MARATHON ANDREI TARKOVSKY 11/13

  Here it is no longer a movie, but it has a whole story. It is an opera, portraying a moment in Russian history, where a…

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  Review by bosephboestar ★★★★★

  my biggest cinema flex is that ive watched all of tarkovsky's films and seen his production of boris godunov live