Articles tagged "alexander-medvedkin"
The Last Bolshevik
Directed by Chris Marker
France | 1992
The flip-side of an essay film is that, by displaying the artist’s intent so fully and clearly, it gives the viewer a unique opportunity to identify less with the film than with the filmmaker. An omnipresent sadness hangs over the film, not only in the radical Marker’s dejection with Communism fighting and conflicted feelings over the official end of the Communist union but in his nagging feelings of guilt of not contacting his friend before his death in ’89. Marker actually structures the film as six letters to Medvedkin, all of which contain hints of apology for not delivering them when the man could read them.