Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Poshlust It's not a biography by any means, it's largely fiction - it's only loosely based off Rublev's life. The film focuses more on his dedication to Eastern Orthodoxy, as well as its role in his evolution as an artist. There are certain characters that each represent different philosophical outlooks under a single unanimous religious belief. In particular, Theophanes is an interesting take on someone being God-loving yet simultaneously overly cynical in his repulsion by His man's vile nature. Outside of characters, the story is alright. The second half is mostly boring in my opinion. Being shot in black and white to emphasize the colorful ending - no doubt to add "life" to the conclusion - is kind of gimmicky, but otherwise a decent film.

deickos Bergman wrote in his autobiography, this is the best film ever made and I find it very difficult to disagree. After watching Tarkovsky's films one cannot be the same person unless he is completely dry inside. I can find so few films that can stand beside Andrei Rublev! and many of them are again Tarkovsky's! We are so grateful for all this man left us - and it is only 7 films. Others would make dozens and would not reach Tarkovsky even if they lived a thousand years. The distances inside this man's work are simply immense.

t-viktor212 What certainly makes Andrei Rublev a masterpiece of a movie is its tone. THe film is filled with really crude realism, darkness, religiousity that just makes you understand the times the film is set. Note that this kind of dark medievality is similar to the one appearingin the rest of Europe, so it helps picture the 1300s.The Famous iconographer I've never heard of before watching this movie, Andrei Rublev, is a very religious person living in a really dark time. While it doesn't show as much constant brutal violence as for example Schindler's list has, the minimal violence shown is still really shocking and brutal. As I stated above I didn't know much about this iconographer, so I searched, but found really little information about the character, maybe I'll learn something when we get to that form of art in school.I wouldn't say that this movie was "Beautiful" or that it had "great visuals". It wasn't a movie that gave you positive feelings in the end, because it wasn't meant to. It wasn't a movie with the sort of great visuals Stalker or The Mirror had. But nonetheless, Andrei Rublev is on of my favourite Tarkovskij films, together with the other two aforementioned films.

valadas Some beautiful, some terrible, some peaceful, some violent. The great Russian icon painter Andrei Rublev lives among the great turmoil in Russia's 15th century with princes' fights and rivalries, Tatar invasions and heathens' ceremonies. There are also religious discussions and faith affirmations among the characters suitable to an epoch of intense spiritual religious life like it were Middle Ages. There are extraordinary sequences like for instance the sack of Vladimir and the casting of the huge bell for the prince. Andrei Rublev goes through all this somehow anguished and without feeling to decide to go painting the icons on the Trinity Monastery like he had been asked to. At last and after the bell was built and put to work he finally decides to go to the Monastery and paint those admirable icons we can see at the end of the movie.