Maria Saakyan's The Lighthouse (2006) is exclusively showing on Mubi in the Rediscovered series.In the opening seconds of Maria Saakyan’s The Lighthouse, an off-screen character opens a burned-out book and thumbs through it with great care before settling on a page of faded and lightly smudged Armenian text. This object is lit hard but simply, with a reverence for its aura and texture, the crags and valleys that it contains in its damage. It’s an iconic image that bookends and ripples through a film that deals in startling montage that collides old imagery with new, mountainous landscapes in turn beautiful and war-torn, and poetic, fantastical flourishes that have elicited many comparisons to Andrei Tarkovsky. While his formal legacy is certainly felt in some aspects, Saakyan, who passed away from cancer in 2018, was a cinematic poet in her own right, and carried on a legacy of poetry through her...
- 9/21/2020
- MUBI
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