Unrelenting bleakness pervades the entire film.
One of the goals would be to project the destructiveness of the Soviet Regime and how it enforces conformity. But this is something that most of us are aware of.
For the central subject of the artist (Wladyslaw Strzeminsk) being persecuted I felt very little empathy for. I couldn't appreciate his art nor his lectures which just seemed overly academic and impersonal. In short his art presentations resembled those espoused by the Soviet authorities - cold and dry without emotion.
There is no wrap-up at the end. What happened to his daughter that he was indifferent to and took for granted? Was Wladyslaw Strzeminsk reputation ever restored?. We never know what made him tick. His country endured a vicious war and occupation by the Nazis - we learn nothing of this. His abstract art works had little to do with anything that had happened and were happening around him.
One of the goals would be to project the destructiveness of the Soviet Regime and how it enforces conformity. But this is something that most of us are aware of.
For the central subject of the artist (Wladyslaw Strzeminsk) being persecuted I felt very little empathy for. I couldn't appreciate his art nor his lectures which just seemed overly academic and impersonal. In short his art presentations resembled those espoused by the Soviet authorities - cold and dry without emotion.
There is no wrap-up at the end. What happened to his daughter that he was indifferent to and took for granted? Was Wladyslaw Strzeminsk reputation ever restored?. We never know what made him tick. His country endured a vicious war and occupation by the Nazis - we learn nothing of this. His abstract art works had little to do with anything that had happened and were happening around him.