Yet another self-indulgent Tarkovsky movie where very little happens. Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky) has travelled to Italy to research the life of a Russian composer who spent time there before committing suicide on his return to Russia. Gorchakov meets madman Erland who locked his family in the house for seven years for their own safety before someone broke the door down and they escaped. Gorchakov then spends about 10 minuted trying to carry a lit candle across a pool. There is a lot of beauty in the film but minimal story, pseudo-intellectual dialogue (as if every character in the film is a brain dead philosophy student) and the excessively long takes make it one of the most frustratingly dull films ever made. He would have been better off directing music videos for goth bands.
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