Smirennaya zhizn (1997) - Aleksandr Sokurov

A myth about lost harmony, which is always with us, though we often cannot feel it, is further developed in this film by Alexander Sokurov. The material used here is concrete and, at first sight, quite fit for TV. The whole work is unhurried and detailed report from an old solitary house, lost in the mountains, in the village of Aska, prefecture Nara, Japan, where an old woman, whose name is Umeno Matshueshi, lives alone. But filmmaker's creative task is quite opposed to the TV information stream. It is not only because this subject, this person couldn't be of any interest for any TV crew in any country (and least of all, perhaps, in modern Japan). Sokurov's camera doesn't watch this character, doesn’t ask any questions, doesn’t surprise her, but extracts uninterrupted poetical image out of the trivial details of this physical reality, out of this extinct life and daily routine. The image is epic and lyrical at the same time. Refined simplicity of Japanese landscape, interior, a series of portraits are not a representation of “couleur local,” but only the sign of ideal technique of the ideal description, allowing to enter this life. The woman, who remains silent throughout the whole film, cooking and eating, kindling the fire and sewing, giving alms and combing her hair before us, recites in the final poem as a prayer: artless and sorrowful tanku about loneliness, about the constancy of losses and gainings. Sokurov shoots this unexpected stroke in his personage's portrait as a lyrical coda of his work. (From Karagarga) General Complete name : a humble life.avi Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave Format/Family : RIFF File size : 772 MiB PlayTime : 1h 16mn Bit rate : 1409 Kbps StreamSize : 5.31 MiB Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release) Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2178/release IAS1 : Russian Video #0 Codec : XviD Codec/Family : MPEG-4 Codec/Info : XviD project Codec profile : Unknown Codec settings/PacketBitStream : No Codec settings/BVOP : No Codec settings/QPel : No Codec settings/GMC : 0 Codec settings/Matrix : Default PlayTime : 1h 16mn Bit rate : 1277 Kbps Width : 672 pixels Height : 512 pixels Display Aspect ratio : 4/3 Frame rate : 25.000 fps Resolution : 8 bits Chroma : 4:2:0 Interlacement : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.147 StreamSize : 697 MiB Audio #1 Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3 Codec profile : Joint stereo PlayTime : 1h 16mn Bit rate : 127 Kbps Bit rate mode : CBR Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48 KHz Resolution : 16 bits StreamSize : 69.4 MiB Writing library : LAME3.98r Encoding settings : CBR Russian / Japanese audio, English subpack Posted at Karagarga by bastelik IMDB: tt0876545

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