SYNOPSIS: Immediately suppressed by the Soviets in 1966, Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic masterpiece is a sweeping medieval tale of Russia’s greatest icon painter. Too experimental, too frightening, too violent, and too politically complicated to be released officially, Andrei Rublev has existed only in shortened, censored versions until the Criterion Collection created this complete 205-minute director’s cut special edition.
I wonder if Criterion will update the cover for this film when they release it on BluRay (if they do) I'm not sure if the guy with the puffy cheeks and funny lips is supposed to be our titular character, but I do know that his works were a bunch of icons very similar to this one (this might actually be one!) Truth be told, this is one of those movies that loses me at the cover. The movie itself is actually good, but when going through my collection it is one I usually pass over, due to the cover. So I would have to give this a low score, it doesn't even seem like Criterion really did this cover...
Criterion Canvas Score: D
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