Sokurov - Vostochnaya Elegiya (1996)

This wonderful visual poem unites many of Sokurov's best traits. Like most of his films, it is less about plot than the unfolding of a specific situation. Here, an observer who merely appears as a silhouette (though it seems to be Sokurov) travels to an old Japanese town on an island. It is an unearthly place, almost empty, old buildings, mist, probably the afterlife. The observer talks to three souls about their former lives which they see as burdensome and unhappy; but they talk in a light-hearted manner. There is a nocturnal feel to everything, the images have a washed-out quality, like varnished old paintings, and Sokurov deliberately keeps them sometimes out of focus (all trademarks of his); the soundtrack is a marvelous composition of gently howling wind, creaking wood and remote music, some classical, some Russian and Japanese folk. The entire movie is a dreamlike reflection on life and death and the view of the dead upon the living. Absolutely recommended for all who like Sokurov and Eastern European poetic film. General Complete name : Vostochnaya Elegiya.avi Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave Format/Family : RIFF File size : 1.14 GiB PlayTime : 44mn 34s Bit rate : 3648 Kbps StreamSize : 3.94 MiB Writing application : FairUse Wizard Writing library : The best and REALLY easy backup tool Video #0 Codec : XviD Codec/Family : MPEG-4 Codec/Info : XviD project Codec profile : Streaming Video Profile/Level 1 Codec settings/PacketBitStream : Yes Codec settings/BVOP : Yes Codec settings/QPel : No Codec settings/GMC : 0 Codec settings/Matrix : Default PlayTime : 44mn 34s Bit rate : 3515 Kbps Width : 640 pixels Height : 464 pixels Display Aspect ratio : 1.379 Frame rate : 23.976 fps Resolution : 8 bits Chroma : 4:2:0 Interlacement : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.493 StreamSize : 1.09 GiB Audio #1 Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3 Codec profile : Joint stereo PlayTime : 44mn 34s Bit rate : 126 Kbps Bit rate mode : CBR Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48 KHz Resolution : 16 bits StreamSize : 40.3 MiB Writing library : LAME3.97 Encoding settings : CBR Russian audio, English and French subtitles IMDB: tt0122467

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