The Colour of Pomegranates
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"My life is all yours; how can I help it, my love?"
Overview
Feast your eyes upon an opulent, intoxicating and gorgeously restored masterpiece from avant-garde Russian auteur Sergei Parajanov. Impressionistic and deeply influential, The Colour of Pomegranates recounts the life of revered 18th century Armenian troubadour Sayat-Nova (Vilen Galstyan) in eight chapters, from childhood to first love to death – from his relationship with his beloved muse (Sofiko Chiaureli) to his miraculous spiritual awakening. Bleeding fruit, roaming cherubs and weeping books abound in this glorious classic of European cinema.
Why See This Film
Combining its dreamlike tableaux with Sayat-Nova’s enthralling verse, The Colour of Pomegranates makes for an entirely original filmgoing experience. Where else can one expect to find floating monasteries, flower-adorned apparitions and jewel-encrusted guardian angels in one place? At once firmly lodged in the past and also far ahead of its time for 1969, this unmissable Soviet treasure deservedly appears on Sight & Sound’s all-important critics’ poll of the greatest films of all time.
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