Year
1969
Language
Georgian spoken, English subtitles
Director
Sergei Parajanov
Duration
79 min
Sergei Parajanov's hypnotic masterpiece is a sensory and enigmatic depiction of the life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, in which imagery takes the place of traditional narrative.
In The Color of Pomegranates, no linear narrative unfolds; instead, symbolism, religion, and poetry are fused together. Parajanov breaks radically with cinematic conventions and creates a visual language that is as silent as it is expressive: color, texture, and rhythm carry the meaning, while each image feels like a self-contained work of art. The film invites viewing, re-reading, and reinterpreting, revealing new layers of beauty and mystique with every glance.
The film is widely celebrated for its extraordinary formal beauty. The film tells its story visually, through carefully composed tableaux, that feel like miniature paintings, and clever use of color design. It fuses visual iconography and symbolism from folk art, religious imagery, and modernist abstraction into a contemplative cinematic poem.
8:00 PM - 9:39 PM
€ 13.00
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During the Cinematic Beauty film programme, we take you on a journey through seven beautiful classics from around the world, each of which sheds a different light on beauty. What is the purpose of beauty in these films, and how does it contribute to what a film wants to tell us? In collaboration with a team of film scholars from the University of Groningen, Cinematic Beauty seeks answers to these questions.
