MONDAY - May 9th
7:30PM for 8PM
- hosted by JOS KOETSIER
SAVE AND PROTECT (1990)
Soviet Union | 1989 | English subtitles | 96 minutes | NA
DIRECTED BY ALEXANDR SOKUROV
Inspired by but not slavishly adapted from Gustave Flaubert's novel "Madame Bovary.”
Though Save and Protect evokes the novel with sometimes startling fidelity, director Aleksandr Sokurov has no intention of trying to recreate it paragraph by paragraph. The embalmer's art, the object of which is to create something prettier than life though dead, is of no interest to this gifted, most original new Russian director.
Instead, he has made a movie about "Madame Bovary," about everything from the ravenous nature of the driven, foolish Emma and the events that overwhelm her, to the novel's enduring hold on the imaginations of succeeding generations. Among other things, "Save and Protect" recalls some sense of the urgency, excitement and wonder that attends the first reading of the book.
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