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Title:	Movie Reviews and Discussion
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Created:	Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1249
Total number of notes:	16012

882.0. "Burnt By the Sun" by TUXEDO::HASBROUCK () Mon Jul 17 1995 18:23

An historical account of Stalin's purge of the Soviet army
in the 30's, told from the standpoint of an officer-war hero and his
family.  Made in Russia, the film was co-produced with some French group.
It feels very French (Bunuel, Renoir), so it doesn't feel
"authentic" and fresh.  It's a hard film to read and the subtitles zip by.  
The film is popular with the art-flic crowd - it's charming, like
a French country-house drama.

Brian

T.R	Title	User	Date	Lines
882.1		PCBUOA::BELLOWS	`Tue Sep 05 1995 12:24`	3
	Hmmm, and I've been telling everyone that it was very Bergmanesque. BTW, Bunuel is Spanish, not French.
882.2		TUXEDO::HASBROUCK	`Mon Sep 11 1995 09:50`	17
	> Hmmm, and I've been telling everyone that it was very Bergmanesque. That too. > BTW, Bunuel is Spanish, not French. Thanx. I assumed because all the his famous films are in French that he was French himself. For that matter, I just learned that Jean Renoir moved to Hollywood during the war and stayed there. His American films were commercial failures. So what did you think of this film? I thought the most interesting thing about it was the way that it showed how a petty personal rivalry got carried over into the national politics of assassination. Kind of like taking Tip O'Neil's maxim "All politics is local" to some ugly extreme. Brian
882.3		PCBUOA::BELLOWS	`Mon Sep 11 1995 16:14`	7
	I liked the film, but I don't think it deserved the Oscar. I know it won because it was so anti-Stalin, but The Day the Sun Turned Cold was a most excellent film. I would recommend this film to just about anybody who enjoys a good think, but I'm not sure I would want to see it again. It's that Bergmanesque thing and I absolutely hate fascism and I get mad. I think Stalin's purges are right up there with the holocaust and the slaughter in ex-Yugoslavia.