Robert. A Fortunate Life
1997 · 27 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 216 VOTES · DIR. Aleksandr Sokurov
Overview
Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and their paintings. He has chosen the painter Hubert Robert, who spent a long time in Italy, and whose preference was for creating ancient ruined landscapes and naturalistic portrayals of times past. He was successful with the wealthy, who bought his works from him. The camera pans across the paintings while Sokurov speaks of a happy era, when the artist was at one with the spirit of the times, and agreed with the taste of his clients. Just how far removed from us this is, is shown by pictures of a "Nô" performance which are inter-cut on the screen. No words are necessary to describe what everybody knows today.
Dialogue Timeline - 187 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME - EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:02 The Hermitage Museum
00:01:11 It was cold and wet.
00:03:35 I recalled
00:04:03 stood in all the splendour of their blossom
00:04:35 These people clung to me
00:05:11 which appeared in my mind's eye?
00:05:40 if whispering words of love."
00:06:40 and the Great Revolution was still to come.
00:07:12 the adoration of beauty, amplification of beauty...
00:07:50 and classical architecture.
00:08:17 11 years travelling
00:09:07 He annoyed no one
00:11:22 In the natural death of a building
00:12:07 is a box to hold light and shade
00:12:50 Then the pictures were packed up
00:15:35 An unbounded world
00:17:06 Yes, undoubtedly
00:18:34 the more he was amazed
00:19:12 This body breathes
00:21:14 did Robert paint huge canvases
00:22:50 money, success.
00:23:29 all his children died:
00:23:58 at the age of 75
00:25:37 Producer Andrei Deryabin