A few weeks ago, we watched the movie "Andrei Rublev" at the coffee shop on second street. We did not watch all of it, simply because it is a three hour movie.
The movie is about Theophane, a master painter, who needs help painting. He asks Kirill to help him paint, but Kirill promises to help only if Theophane sends a messenger to ask for him. The messenger asks for the wrong person and Theophane gets Andrei and Daniel instead.
The movie is very confusing, and names are hard to remember, but it was still kind of interesting. There is a scene where Kirill gets tied to a pole and watches all of these naked people running around singing, dancing, and making love. Its just a free for all lovemaking ceremony.
Another scene involves Kirill traveling the next day and sees two of the naked people getting arrested because they are pagans and were hiding from the religious law. It was weird, and kind of sad.
Later in the movie, Andrei is confessing to Daniel that he would rather go home and quit because nothing has been painted. They waisted all of this time for nothing, and everybody was bored. The prince they are supposed to be painting for hears about the group leaving, and that some of them are going to go paint for his brother. The prince orders his guards to go and gouge out all of the painters' eyes. He was one upset prince!
The last scene we watched was very confusing to end on. I think everybody was raiding some abandoned or beaten town. They were all on horseback, and some had flags with them too.
My two favorite lines in the movie were both spoken by Theophane right in the beginning of the movie.
"As long as something is beautiful, you can grasp its essence."
"He who increases his knowledge, increases his sorrow."
Beautiful lines!
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