russellcraigr

a very unusual film yes, it is slow but such a simple idea : everybody knows Crime and Punishment, right? so let's just take the wanderings of Raskolnikov before and after the murder and leave out all the main scenes this is a film about the time between events and it is remarkable

the dream of cinema becoming (again) a world language has always seemed to me to cover a sadder loss - which language? almost certainly, mainstream narrative well - watch this film and see another way of doing things it's funny, profound, conversational, slow (??? do the other people mean long takes?? the film is not slow at all) and timeless and the colours and the central position of Woman and - yes - the rigour of Sembene make this (still 30 years on) a landmark of world cinema and so light a man with trousers of fat should not stand close to the fire right