Dersu Uzala
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Movie Reviews of Dersu Uzala
Movie Review: Stunningly beautiful and stunningly moving
Summary: 5 Stars
Dersu Uzala is a deeply moving, occasionally humorous, and hauntingly beautiful Akira Kurosawa film about a most unlikely of friendships between an Russian Army captain and a native Siberian hunter who lives alone in the wilderness - Dersu Uzala. The film is shot almost entirely outside in the Siberian wilderness, featuring some of the most stunningly bleak landscapes I have ever seen captured on film, and is so brialliantly acted that it seems more like documentary about real people than actors reading a script. This Russian-language film is one of Kurosawa's lesser known gems and shows his directing at its best, when he was at the height of his mature talent. In its own way this film has a lot to say about the plight of native peoples and the high price of modernity. Not to be missed.Movie Review: Across HIS ocean
Summary: 5 Stars
It has been a long time since I have been waiting for this movie to become available for purchase. In the midst of my learning a new language. When I first saw this unknown movie., which I chose at random off a site . I immediately fell in love with this movie, since the first 5 minutes, and have since viewed this movie over 50 times. For me, it is definitely a classic. When I finally noticed your company began selling it. I immediately ordered this, and have been enjoying it every since. Over time, I am being able to recognize the meaning of the words in the movie, without having to refer to the subtitles. As I find additional interesting Russian movies, I will certainly await for your company to offer them, at which time I will purchase too. Thanking you in advance!Movie Review: A short story in celluloid
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a very simple story but became very profound through Kurosawa's masterful directing, grave Russian soundtrack and beautiful cinematography in a soviet landscape. Through a very small setting, Kurosawa was able to show the interplay of men and nature, the call of the wild and the parallel between old age and fading of an era when civilization takes over the wilderness. The actor of the title character Uzala was just great. It's a beautiful movie-- takes you very close to the nature you may never get the time to see. And although not moralistic at all, occasionally, the movie motivates you to revere the world around --the tree nobody cares or the stream that flows without shame or the waltz of the dancing leaves in a summer forest. I recommend it.Movie Review: Great film, but don't expect any sword fights
Summary: 5 Stars
A brilliant film, and winner of the Best Foreign Film Academy Award. The title character is an outdoorsy Mongolian who is a little bit... eccentric. Some Soviets recruit him for a survaying mission. The Russians dismiss him as a hopeless savage and are, in classic form, proved wrong through his deeds. Rest assured that the Kurosawa camera for focus on the visual splendor that the stark winter landscapes and the dense forests have to offer. Just as the wilderness offers a majestic stillness, so too do the widescreen compositions. The elegance and simplicity of style are directly related to the subject matter.
This will be a welcome addition to any film lovers library, and a must for any Kurosawa fan.
Movie Review: Capitan! Dersu! A movie of race, friendship, and topography
Summary: 5 Stars
Kurosawa has many fine movies. This is the finest. It is, as most great cinema, self-reflective and self-conscious. What is the art of the director, the cinematographer, the actor, the camera, if not the exploration of a scenery? Topography is what film always does, and this film quite literally makes a film about film within its story line and its shots. The slow pace, the developing love between two friends, the muted but ever-present drum of the purpose of topography and film (military)--these call attention to what film is, what it is for, and what the desires and expectations of its audience are. We are bottles on a string. Better to save us than to aim at us.